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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 84879, member: 27"] Exynos 2600 just punched above its weight in OpenCL, then immediately got humbled by Vulkan, because nothing with Exynos is ever simple. Benchmarks arrive right on cue [LIST] [*]Samsung is heading into its first Galaxy Unpacked of the year. [*]Benchmark leaks were basically inevitable. [*]Exynos 2600 is already getting stress-tested in public. [/LIST] Why this chip matters [LIST] [*]Exynos 2600 is Samsung’s first SoC mass-produced on a 2nm GAA process. [*]The GPU is Xclipse 960. [*]This is the first Xclipse GPU to use a customized version of AMD RDNA 4. [*]On paper, this is a generational leap, not a minor refresh. [/LIST] The OpenCL shocker [LIST] [*]Geekbench 6 OpenCL results show Exynos 2600 scoring 24,964. [*]The Snapdragon X Elite scores 20,492 in the same test. [*]That puts Exynos 2600 ahead by about 21.8 percent. [*]The Snapdragon X Elite is still assumed to be a heavyweight, especially for laptops. [/LIST] Context makes it spicier [LIST] [*]The Snapdragon X Elite result comes from the Galaxy Book4 Edge. [*]This is a notebook-class device losing to a smartphone SoC in OpenCL. [*]That alone explains why eyebrows went up fast. [/LIST] Vulkan flips the table [LIST] [*]Once Geekbench 6 switches to Vulkan, the balance changes. [*]Snapdragon X Elite posts a score of 28,934. [*]That puts it about 15.9 percent ahead. [*]The API difference matters, and it shows. [/LIST] Power mode caveat [LIST] [*]The Galaxy Book4 Edge was running in Balanced mode. [*]High Performance mode likely would have boosted the Vulkan score further. [*]This makes the Vulkan gap easier to explain. [/LIST] Missing Vulkan piece [LIST] [*]Exynos 2600 Vulkan scores have not been shared yet. [*]That leaves a big hole in the comparison. [*]A phone-class chip holding its own here would be the real story. [/LIST] Samsung’s own GPU claims [LIST] [*]Samsung says Xclipse 960 delivers up to 50 percent better ray tracing than Xclipse 950. [*]Xclipse 950 previously shipped with Exynos 2500. [*]These gains sound impressive, but history urges caution. [/LIST] Exynos baggage returns [LIST] [*]Exynos chips have a long record of early hype. [*]Overheating and thermal throttling usually follow. [*]Vapor chambers did not save earlier flagship phones. [*]Raw performance has never been the only problem. [/LIST] Heat Pass Block enters the chat [LIST] [*]Samsung is pushing Heat Pass Block technology as the fix. [*]HPB reportedly cuts temperatures by up to 30 percent. [*]It acts like a built-in heatsink at the silicon level. [*]A Samsung executive claims other chipmakers are already interested. [/LIST] Why this still matters [LIST] [*]If HPB works, Exynos finally gets a second chance. [*]A cool Exynos 2600 changes the conversation entirely. [*]For now, it is promising, suspicious, and familiar all at once. [*]The real verdict waits for official launches and sustained workloads. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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