Samsung launched the Galaxy S24 collection working on Snapdragon and in-house Exynos chipsets in January. The South Korean expertise conglomerate was tipped final month to completely change to Exynos SoCs for the whole Galaxy S25 lineup subsequent 12 months. A brand new report, nonetheless, contradicts the declare and says that Samsung will as soon as once more decide to separate its Galaxy S25 smartphones between Snapdragon and Exynos chipsets. The corporate will reportedly utilise Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Exynos 2500 chipsets for its subsequent technology of flagship Galaxy S collection smartphones.
Based on a report by DigiTimes Asia (through SamMobile), Samsung will stick to its technique of utilizing each Qualcomm and Exynos chipsets for its Galaxy S collection smartphones. The report doesn’t specify which telephones within the lineup will run on Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, however we are able to count on the Qualcomm SoC to characteristic on the top-of-the-line Galaxy S25 Extremely in all markets. Different telephones within the collection — more likely to be Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+ — may characteristic the Exynos 2500 chipset or Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, relying on the area the place they’re offered.
The Galaxy S24 Extremely runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 globally, whereas the in-house Exynos 2400 SoC powers the bottom Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ in markets outdoors the US, together with India.
Final month, a hearsay claimed that Samsung might use both an Exynos SoC or a Snapdragon chip, relying on the area, even on the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 foldables. This is able to be a departure from Samsung’s common observe of packing Snapdragon processors in its Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip smartphones.
Samsung can also be engaged on closing the efficiency hole between Qualcomm and Exynos chipsets. Final week, a tipster claimed that the corporate’s Exynos 2500 processor outperformed the present Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC by way of each CPU and GPU efficiency. The declare, nonetheless, was not backed by any efficiency metrics and benchmark numbers.
Whereas there are not any benchmarks obtainable but, the Exynos 2500 chipset is claimed to comprise a Cortex-X5 core clocked at 3.2GHz or extra, three Cortex-A730 cores at as much as 2.5GHz, two extra Cortex-A730 cores, and 4 Cortex-A520 cores with undisclosed clock speeds.
Early in March, the Galaxy S25 collection was tipped to run solely on Samsung’s Exynos chipset. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset, in the meantime, has been confirmed to launch with a customized Oryon CPU on the Snapdragon Summit in October. The chipset is predicted to energy upcoming flagship Android telephones like Samsung Galaxy S25, Xiaomi 15 collection, and Asus Zenfone 11.
