Samsung’s upcoming Exynos 2600 chip — likely to power next year’s Galaxy S26 — has made its appearance on Geekbench, offering a glimpse into what the next generation of flagship performance might look like. While the scores come from a pre-production unit, they give an early look at how the chip stacks up against current and upcoming competition.
Tested on Geekbench 6.4, the Exynos 2600 posted a single-core score of 2,155 and a multi-core score of 7,788. For context, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 (expected to power the Ultra model) reportedly scores over 4,000 and 11,000 in the same tests. These numbers are also lower than previously speculated figures for the Exynos 2600 itself. In fact, the results closely resemble the CPU performance of the just released Galaxy Z Flip7, which runs on the Exynos 2500—suggesting there could be a noticeable performance gap between the S26 models powered by Exynos and those powered by Snapdragon.
That said, this is just an early development-stage test, and performance is expected to improve as Samsung continues refining resource management, thermals, and other system-level optimizations. These initial results are more a reflection of the current state of development than a final verdict. We’ll know more once benchmark scores for the Ultra model—likely powered by Qualcomm’s 8 Elite Gen 2—start appearing.
For now, the Geekbench listing confirms a few details about the Exynos 2600: it packs a 10-core CPU. The CPU cluster includes one Cortex-X930 core running at 3.55GHz, three Cortex-A730 cores at 2.96GHz, and six more A730s at 2.46GHz. This chip is said to be based on Samsung’s 2nm SF2 process.
It’s likely that the Exynos 2600 will be used in select Galaxy S26 models across Europe and Asia, while Snapdragon variants could be reserved for the US and Chinese markets.
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