Exynos 2600 trails Snapdragon 8 Elite in tests

Benchmark numbers from Geekbench 6 just handed Qualcomm a CPU win, but Samsung's Exynos 2600 clawed back ground on the GPU side.

Exynos 2600 vs. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU results

• Leaker GadgetsBoy posted the official Geekbench 6 compute results for both chips.
• Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy pulled an 18.2% lead in single-core performance.
• Qualcomm's chip also edged ahead in multi-core, beating the Exynos 2600 by 5.14%.
• Samsung's chip logged a single-core score of 3,105 against Qualcomm's 3,670.

Exynos 2600 GPU advantage in OpenCL

• Xclipse 960 runs on a customized AMD RDNA4 architecture inside the Exynos 2600.
• OpenCL scores flipped the script, with Samsung's chip hitting 24,240 vs. 24,152.
• Vulkan testing got skipped entirely, leaving a gap in the full GPU picture.
• Against the Snapdragon X Elite's Adreno iGPU, the Exynos 2600 wins OpenCL but loses Vulkan.

What these results don't tell you

• Geekbench 6 only runs in short bursts, so sustained performance stays unknown for now.
• Samsung's Heat Pass Block is a copper heatsink sitting directly on the die for faster heat transfer.
• Long-haul workloads could be where the Exynos 2600 actually pulls ahead of the competition.
• GadgetsBoy didn't clarify whether the Exynos 2600 device tested was the Galaxy S26 or Galaxy S26+.