ON 3 February 2026, leaks surrounding Samsung’s Galaxy S26 suggest the Exynos 2600, manufactured on a 2nm GAA node, will rival Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in the Korean market and beyond. Geekbench 6 telemetry shows the Exynos 2600-equipped Galaxy S26 with 12GB of RAM running Android 16, and early single-core scores place it close to the Snapdragon variant, while the Galaxy S25 with Snapdragon scores 3175.
The Exynos 2600 is described as a 10-core chip featuring Arm’s C1-Ultra and C1-Pro cores, with Samsung claiming a 39% performance uplift over the Exynos 2500 and the Xclipse 960 GPU, believed to be based on AMD RDNA 4, will double throughput and boost Ray Tracing by about 50%. The article also notes a dual-distribution strategy: the United States and China will likely receive the Qualcomm variant, while Korea and presumably Europe will return to Exynos. Beyond raw power, the piece emphasises thermal management and energy efficiency as crucial for real-world performance.