Summary
- Samsung may adopt the Exynos 2600 chip across the entire Galaxy S26 line, replacing the Snapdragon.
- According to the South Korean agency Yonhap, the Exynos 2600 will have 2 nm lithography, a ten-core ARM C1 CPU and an Xclipse 950 GPU, with superior performance.
- If confirmed, this would be the fifth recent change to the Galaxy line’s chipsets.
Samsung may equip the entire Galaxy S26 line with its new Exynos 2600 processor. According to the South Korean news agency Yonhapit will be the first time in four years that the chipset will be used in Ultra models (the last one was the Galaxy S22 Ultra).
However, it would be the fifth recent change to the Galaxy line’s chipset. Currently, the S25 family uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC in all devices. If the information released today (20/10) is confirmed, the change would unify Exynos, its own line of processors, as the manufacturer’s standard chipset in all markets.
What to expect from the Exynos 2600?
According to the agency, the Exynos 2600 will be built on Samsung Foundry’s 2 nanometer (nm) manufacturing process. The chip would feature a ten-core CPU from the ARM C1 series and an Xclipse 950 GPU, which uses AMD’s RDNA architecture, continuing the technical partnership between the two companies. Mass production of the component would be scheduled to begin next month.
The report states that the performance jump is substantial, based on reports from the company’s internal tests. The neural processing unit (NPU), a crucial component for artificial intelligence tasks, would be six times larger than that of Apple’s A19 Pro chip.
Compared to the same competitor’s processor, the Exynos 2600 would have demonstrated 15% higher performance on multi-core CPU and up to 75% higher performance on GPU in certain benchmarks.
When compared to its direct rival in the Android ecosystem, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, Samsung’s chip would also have 30% higher NPU performance and up to 29% higher GPU performance.
Controversial history
Still, the trajectory of Exynos processors is marked by some controversies. As you remember SamMobilereports indicated overheating and lower performance of the Exynos 2200 of the Galaxy S22 line compared to the equivalent Snapdragon.
In response, Samsung equipped the Galaxy S23 globally with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. In the S24 line, the company returned to using the Exynos 2400 in the base and Plus models in regions outside the US and China, including Brazil, keeping the Snapdragon only in the S24 Ultra.
Then, Samsung changed its approach again with the Galaxy S25 line and chose to equip all models in the series globally — base, Plus and Ultra versions — with the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, unifying its main line with a single chip supplier in 2025.
In addition to the Exynos 2600, the Galaxy S26 Ultra could bring a new camera design. Images shared by leaker Tarun Vats, known for anticipating Samsung launches on his X account, show the three main lenses on a raised island on the back of the device.
Source: https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/galaxy-s26-pode-usar-apenas-chips-exynos/
