Samsung made history by announcing its first 3nm GAA smartphone chipset, the Exynos 2500, but the SoC has been spotted in Geekbench 6’s single-core and multi-core results on a previous occasion, securing disappointing results. Prior to the Korean giant’s official unveiling, the SoC was retested in the same benchmark, and while it has been able to recover some points, it remains slower than the top players like the Dimensity 9400, Snapdragon 8 Elite, and Apple’s A18 and A18 Pro.
Updated multi-core scores of the Exynos 2500 receive a sub-10 percent gain in the latest benchmark
On X, Tarun Vats shared the updated results for the Exynos 2500, with Samsung’s latest and greatest silicon obtaining a single-core and multi-core score of 2,356 and 8,076. When the chipset was previously tested, it attained scores of 2,012 and 7,563. Overall, we are looking at a nominal 17 percent gain in single-threaded workloads and 6.7 percent in multi-threaded ones. It is a small gain, but bear in mind that if Samsung’s 3nm GAA process produced better yields, the Exynos 2500 would have found its way into the Galaxy S25 series much earlier.
In short, this is a flagship chipset, but sadly, it is unable to beat any current-generation top-tier silicon at this time. Sure, there are considerable performance gains compared to the Exynos 2400, but even the latter was slower than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 and Dimensity 9300+. It is plausible that these low yields are compromising the performance aspect of the Exynos 2500. Samsung was previously rumored to be hovering around a 20-40 percent yield range for its 3nm GAA SoC, so it is possible that it cannot unlock the silicon’s full potential because of this roadblock.
Even if the compute performance side of the Exynos 2500 is disappointing, we have yet to see what the Xclipse 950 GPU is capable of achieving. Once we have those results, we will gladly share those comparisons and figures with our readers, so stay tuned for more updates.
About the author: Omar Sohail is a reporter and analyst for Wccftech's mobile section, specializing in the technology and business of the mobile industry. His expertise lies in the intricate hardware supply chain, covering developments in semiconductor manufacturing, chip lithography, and camera sensor technology.
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