Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the chip that will carry the new Galaxy S25 series. After several rumors and doubts, the conclusion reached by both users and the media is that the chipset that will be mounted on the new Galaxy S25 will be the Snapdragon 8 Elite.
Although a recent entry in Geekbench indicates the possibility that there is a variant of the Galaxy S25+ with the Exynos 2500.
Galaxy S25+: European version?
It was detected in the Geekbench database a European variant of Galaxy S25+ with model number SM-S936B which has a mounted Exynos 2500 with model number S5E9955.
When analyzing this Geekbench entry, it was discovered that the chip used by the Xclipse 950 GPU is based on the AMD’s RDNA architecturewhich in turn is compatible with Vulkan 1.3the latest version of the Vulkan API for graphics. Additionally, this phone appears to use 12GB of RAM and run Android 15.
As can be seen in the image, the Exynos 2500 has a 10-core CPU divided into four groups. He Main processor core It has a clock speed of 3.3 GHz, in addition to five high-performance corestwo of which operate at 2.75 GHz and the rest at 2.36 GHz. It only has two low-power ones that operate at 1.8 GHz.
He performance of the Exynos 2500 processor seems to be lower that of the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 and that of the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Although it must be taken into account that, at the moment, This is an internal software test. When a phone is available in the market, it already meets improved performance.
For now it’s not clear whether the Galaxy S25 series will use the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset or if there will be a variant in some markets that integrates another chip, like the Exynos 2500. What we do know is that we will have to wait to see what will happen eventually.
Pictures | Samsung, Geekbench
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