Samsung’s Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ are equipped in some markets with the Korean company’s Exynos 2400 SoC, and these were presented just last week. Yet we already have some leaks about the upcoming Exynos 2500 chipset, which is expected to be used in the Galaxy S25 family in a year’s time.
The CPU will presumably retain the 10-core configuration of the Exynos 2400, but the 2500 will use ARM’s upcoming CPU cores. It will be made on Samsung’s second-generation 3nm process (3nm GAP/SF3). This is apparently better than TSMC’s current 3nm process in terms of area and efficiency.
The Exynos 2500’s CPU is said to have one Cortex-X5 core clocked at 3.2 GHz or higher, three Cortex-A730 cores clocked at 2.3 GHz to 2.5 GHz, two additional Cortex-A730 cores, and four Cortex-A520 cores focused on efficiency.
The Cortex-X5 CPU core is said so far to outperform Apple’s latest custom CPU core in terms of performance. So the Exynos 2500 could be a very interesting chip indeed, from a performance perspective. It remains to be seen how it will perform in terms of efficiency. However, there is plenty of time for more leaks to come in and cover it up.
As for the GPU, the Exynos 2500 could feature AMD’s RDNA-based Xclipse 950, a step up from the Exynos 2400’s Xclipse 940 – and that already defeats the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in raytracing. Given that the Exynos 2400 appears to be quite close to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in benchmarks, the 2500 with its improvements could create a situation where the Exynos is at least on par with the Snapdragon again, after many, many years.
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