Samsung is cooking– according to @Jukanlosrevewho is carefully following the semiconductor market, the Exynos 2600 will provide enormous GPU and NPU efficiency enhancements. It will suffice to beat Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Apple’s A19 Pro by quite strong margins, obviously.
And if that holds true, then the Exynos 2600 might include on all Galaxy S26 designs, not simply the base S26 as at first reported. A minimum of that is what leakster Ice Universe is speaking with his sources. That does not indicate the Snapdragon is out– there will be local factors to consider.
Here’s what Jukan needs to report on the Exynos 2600 based upon details from Korean media. The NPU will be 6x faster than that in the Apple A19 Pro (the iPhone 17 Pro chipset). This would likewise put it 30% or two above the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 NPU.
And even if you do not care about AI, multi-core CPU efficiency is stated to be 14% greater and the GPU is to be a massive 75% faster than the A19 Pro. Compared to the flagship Snapdragon, the Exynos GPU will depend on 29% faster.
Just recently, we heard that Samsung is thinking about launching the Galaxy S26 Pro internationally with the Exynos 2600. There was a report that the Galaxy S26 Ultra will likewise utilize the Samsung chip, however that report was relatively refuted.
And now the tide has actually turned and the reports state that all S26 designs will utilize the Exynos 2600, a minimum of in some areas– Samsung is supposedly going for a 50/50 split in between Exynos 2600 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 systems. Phones offered in the United States, China and Japan will be getting the Qualcomm chip, while Korea, Europe and all over else will be getting the Samsung chip.
This is an intriguing turn of occasions as Samsung’s foundries apparently scored an order to produce Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chips, most likely utilizing the 2nm GAA node (the Exynos 2600 has very first dibs on that node, though). Those Samsung-made Snapdragon chips are rather most likely to wind up in Galaxy phones, so all Galaxy S26 designs might include Samsung-made chips in a method.
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It’s not simply the chipset choice, the entire Galaxy S26 series remains in flux. The Galaxy S26 Pro will most likely not be called that (it will simply be the “Galaxy S26”), the Galaxy S26 Edge was supposedly canceled and the S26+ lives and the Galaxy S26 Ultra … well, there was never ever any doubt about its future.
You can check out Jukan’s in-depth report here.
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