Exynos 2600 Officially Announced As Samsung’s First 2nm GAA Chipset, All-Performance Cores Cluster, Up To 16% Better Thermal Resistance, 50% Improved RT Performance & More

The partial specifications surrounding the Exynos 2600 were revealed yesterday, and it only took 24 hours for Samsung to publish all the details of the world’s first 2nm GAA chipset. As reported previously, the Korean giant has incorporated a 10-core CPU cluster, along with its Xclipse 960 GPU, to deliver impressive performance gains in single-core, multi-core, and graphics performance while keeping a lid on thermals, with the new manufacturing process maintaining solid efficiency.

ARM’s Scalable Matrix Extension 2 is supported by the Exynos 2600, leading to enhanced multi-core performance while boosting efficiency; chipset utilizes C1 designs like MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500

Sporting a ‘1 + 3 + 6’ cluster, the Exynos 2600 takes advantage of ARM’s C1-Ultra and C1-Pro cores to deliver a solid configuration that helps increase multi-core performance, allowing Samsung’s SoC to compete with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Dimensity 9500. In fact, Exynos 2600 utilizes the same cores as MediaTek’s flagship chipset, with the core details listed below:

• One C1-Ultra core running at 3.80GHz
• Three C1-Pro cores running at 3.25GHz
• Six C1-Pro cores running at 2.75GHz
• Samsung Xclipse 960 GPU (clock speeds undisclosed)
• AI Engine with 32K Mac Neural Processing Unit
• LPDDR5X RAM support

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Thanks to supporting the newest ARM v9.3 architecture, the Exynos 2600 supports the company’s Scalable Matrix Extension 2 (SME2) instruction set, and like Apple’s M4, Samsung’s first 2nm GAA chipset can run complex workloads more efficiently, resulting in higher single-core and multi-core gains. The company claims that this enhancement improves overall CPU computing performance by up to 39 percent.

The NPU is also marketed to improve generative AI performance by a whopping 113 percent compared to the Exynos 2500. Samsung has also strengthened ‘on-device privacy strengthens through virtualization security and hardware-backed hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), which is the first in mobile SoCs, enabling ROM-rooted protection for future-proof security.’ As for the GPU, its computing performance is reportedly twice as fast as its predecessor, with ray tracing performance improved by up to 50 percent.

The Exynos 2600 also supports Samsung’s proprietary ENSS, or Exynos Neural Super Sampling, which works similarly to NVIDIA’s DLSS, AMD’s FSR, or Sony’s PSSR. The company states that its 2nm GAA SoC supports frame generation, ensuring a significant framerate boost in games. For cameras, you get sharper results with the introduction of Samsung’s AI-based Visual Perception System (VPS), which allows the ISP (Image Signal Processor) to recognize a variety of detailed elements, even blinking within images and videos, and process them in real time.

Samsung claims that this AI implementation reduces power consumption by up to 50 percent, with additional features such as Deep Learning Video Noise Reduction (DVNR) also included, enhancing video quality in low-light conditions while operating at low power. The Exynos 2600 can support cameras of up to 320MP and adopts the APV codec.

Samsung says the Exynos 2600’s thermals will be controlled using ‘Heat Pass Block’ technology

To address the overheating complaints, Samsung was earlier reported to have adopted HPB, or Heat Pass Block technology, on the Exynos 2600. While a company executive has previously mentioned that this new approach can deliver a 30 percent temperature drop compared to the previous-generation chipsets, Samsung’s latest details claim that the improved heat flow lowers thermal resistance by 16 percent.

While these details are super-impressive on paper, we have yet to see what the Exynos 2600 is capable of achieving when found in the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+. Unfortunately, the Galaxy S26 Ultra will exclusively ship with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, marking yet another year where Samsung has silently admitted that Qualcomm’s flagship SoC is potentially superior.

Hopefully, the upcoming release serves as a reminder that the Korean titan has what it takes to compete with the upper echelon of SoCs, and if you want to learn more about the Exynos 2600’s history, do check out our detailed roundup for more information.

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