There has been a confusing development regarding the Samsung Galaxy S25 series, which is set to be unveiled early next year. Initially, it was rumored that the entire series would be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processor. This speculation arose from reports of issues in the production of the company’s own Exynos 2500 chip. However, recent developments suggest a different story.

Galaxy S25+ in performance test with Exynos 2500

The Galaxy S25+ was spotted in the Geekbench database with the model number SM-S936B. The smartphone achieved a single-core score of 2,359 and a multi-core score of 8,141 in performance tests. This indicates that the South Korean brand has not completely abandoned the Exynos 2500.

The prototype tested is powered by the Exynos 2500, which features clock speeds of up to 3.3 GHz and adopts a 10-core CPU architecture. Additionally, it includes Samsung’s Xclipse 950 GPU.

In other news, Samsung has also announced updates for three more models! The latest devices to receive the November 2024 update are the Samsung Galaxy S23, S23+, and S23 Ultra. What does this new update bring?

So, is there a performance difference between the Exynos 2500 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processors? According to Geekbench data, Samsung’s processor lags behind Qualcomm’s in single-core performance, but they show similar performance in multi-core scenarios.

For comparison, the Galaxy S25 Ultra with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processor achieved a score of 3,096 in single-core tests and 9,080 in multi-core tests.

Considering all these developments, we can conclude that Samsung has not given up on its Exynos 2500 chip and may use it in the new series. However, we cannot predict which hardware will be predominant, and we will likely find out at the launch event scheduled for early 2025.

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