Exynos 2600 trails Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Samsung’s Exynos 2600 processor trails Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in Geekbench 6 testing, but closes the performance gap between the two chips. The Exynos 2600 scored 10 percent lower in single-core tests and 6.25 percent lower in multi-core measurements compared with the Qualcomm processor.
The Samsung chip features one core at 3.80 gigahertz, three cores at 3.26 gigahertz, and six cores at 2.76 gigahertz. Qualcomm’s processor runs two cores at 4.61 gigahertz and six cores at 3.63 gigahertz, giving it substantial clock speed advantages.
Samsung achieved a 37 percent single-core improvement and 29 percent multi-core gain over the previous Exynos 2500. The company’s processors have historically throttled performance under thermal stress, which may affect real-world results when the Galaxy S26 series launches with the new chip.
