Breaking Samsung Galaxy S25 News: Is The Exynos 2500 Chip In Jeopardy?

Samsung seems unsure about using the Exynos 2500 in its upcoming Galaxy S25 series. In April, the company confirmed it would include the new SoC in its next flagship. Although it didn’t specify a product, many expected to see the upcoming Exynos chip in the Galaxy S25 models, at least in the smaller versions for markets outside North America and Europe.

However, there hasn’t been much news about the Exynos 2500 lately, leaving fans wondering about its status. It’s been a few years since Samsung produced an Exynos chip that could keep up with its Qualcomm counterparts, which has been the preferred choice in recent flagships.

Now it seems like news about the Exynos 2500 might surface again as there have been Geekbench results spotted. This should give an idea of how the SoC will perform, at least when it comes to CPU tasks.

According to reports, the Geekbench results show a CPU with three prime cores along with some efficiency cores. Considering Samsung usually uses a tri-cluster setup in its SoCs, it appears the Exynos 2500 might be the end for that design approach. The last year’s Exynos 2100 arrived in tri-cluster setup, combining three high-power Cortex-A78 CPU cores, four Cortex-A55 CPU cores, and four lower-power Cortex-A55 cores.

Compared to it, using three prime cores in the Exynos 2500 probably means Samsung has moved to the newer Cortex-X3 and Cortex-A715 from ARM. Based on 5nm or 4nm production techniques, the big cores are said to have performance up by almost 17% and power efficiency enhanced by more than 20%, which sounds quite promising for smartphone enthusiasts looking forward to the Galaxy S25’s potential release.

However, other Geekbench listings may confirm this for better validation of this theory. As this isn’t clear for certain at this time, fans should hold their horses while waiting for more information from Samsung about the Exynos 2500. But one thing is sure; as was the case with previous Exynos models, we can’t rule out Samsung from keeping it exclusive to some regions or lower models from the Galaxy S25 series.

For regions such as North America and China, they’ll most likely stick to Qualcomm chipsets like the newer Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 instead of the Exynos. Nonetheless, there’s ample evidence to show how Exynos chips have performed sub-par to their Snapdragon-SoC counterparts in previous years, including with gaming and camera capabilities.

That is something they might want to improve this year if they are pushing the new SoC to regions in Asia and the rest of the world. But the inclusion of an Exynos 2500 won’t bring a universally accepted S25 Galaxy in this decade of smartphone innovations.