A truckload of benchmark leaks surrounding the Exynos 2600 gave us a sliver of hope for Samsung’s first 2nm GAA chipset, and it should have already been known that the SoC would be compared against Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 shortly after the Galaxy S26 series went official. Well, here’s your first synthetic performance results comparison, where both silicon have been tested using Geekbench 6’s single-core, multi-core, and OpenCL benchmarks, with the Exynos 2600 possessing a faster GPU, but slower CPU.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy is up to 18% faster than Exynos 2600 in Geekbench 6’s single-core & multi-core results
The official Geekbench 6 compute results were posted by @GadgetsBoy, showing the Galaxy S26 Ultra equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy, though he didn’t specify if the other device was the Galaxy S26 or Galaxy S26+. In any case, we finally have our first look at how the Exynos 2600 performs in Geekbench 6 compute results below, with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy up to 18.2 percent faster.
Thankfully, Samsung’s 2nm GAA SoC sports the Xclipse 960 GPU, which employs a customized version of AMD’s RDNA4 architecture and gives the graphics processor an edge over its rival in Geekbench 6’s OpenCL results. Keep in mind that the Vulkan tests weren’t carried out, which would have given us a closer look at the figures from a different API. To remind you, the Exynos 2600 is faster than the Snapdragon X Elite’s Adreno iGPU in OpenCL, but slower in Vulkan.
Exynos 2600
- Single-core score - 3,105
- Multi-core score - 10,444
- OpenCL score - 24,240
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy
- Single-core score - 3,670 (18.2 percent faster)
- Multi-core score - 10,981 (5.14 percent faster)
- OpenCL score - 24,152
Even though the Exynos 2600 claimed both a loss and a win, Geekbench 6 only runs for a few short bursts, which doesn’t paint the entire performance picture. One advantage Samsung’s in-house SoC has is that it features the company’s Heat Pass Block (HPB), which is a copper heatsink placed directly on top of the die to help transfer heat faster. This implementation can help the Exynos 2600 perform significantly better in sustained workloads, but we will provide those metrics a little later, so stay tuned.
News Source: @GadgetsBoy
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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