The Exynos 2600 might offer better GPU performance than the Snapdragon 8 Elite
Exynos 2600 3Dmark SNL score pic.twitter.com/6bPUNHhNii — Jukan (@Jukanlosreve) July 26, 2025
An X user posted a photo of 3DMark's Steel Nomad Light benchmark with the Exynos 2600 scoring impressive 3,135 points, which is about 15% higher than what you would expect from a Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered smartphone. So if we go by this leak, the Exynos 2600's Xclipse 960 GPU will be more powerful than the current Snapdragon flagship chip.
But there's more nuance to that. Firstly, Samsung's SoC appears to be running on a test bench, which often outperforms smartphones since it has better cooling, and with better cooling comes higher raw performance.
Secondly, this probably isn't the final version of the chipset, as it's scheduled to arrive in early 2026 along with the Galaxy S26 series, and there may be some changes to the clock speeds, for example. Moreover, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 is expected to be released by then.
So, at the end of the day, it's too early to tell whether the Exynos 2600 will outperform Qualcomm's best hardware, but these preliminary results sure do look promising.
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