Samsung is working on the Decacore Exynos 2500 AP; can it compete with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4?،
Samsung plans to continue using the “dual chipset” system it used this year for the 2025 flagship Galaxy S25 series. Let's look ahead by looking back first, shall we? In 2023, Samsung had neither designed nor produced an Exynos 2300 chipset and the Exynos 2200 SoC was not a good choice for Samsung's flagship phones of 2023. So, all models of the Galaxy S23 series, including the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and the Galaxy S23 Ultra were equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 application processor (AP) for Galaxy.
This year, Samsung had an upgraded Exynos 2400 AP in its case and the company took advantage of it by running the chipset in the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ in most markets, except the US and China where both of these handsets are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy SoC. The high-end Galaxy S24 Ultra is powered by the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 for Galaxy chipset in all regions.
Samsung plans to continue this system next year with its flagship Galaxy S25 range; With this in mind, the company has started testing the Exynos 2500 chipset. On “X”, a tweet from PandaFlash (via Wccftech) notes that the Exynos 2500 was well tested against the current Snapdragon 8 generation 3 chip regarding the CPU and GPU. But the chip the Exynos 2500 will be up against next year will be the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
The Exynos 2500 performs well against the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but lags behind the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4
But there's still plenty of time for Samsung to make some changes to the chip's packaging to make it more heat-resistant, which is important since the Exynos 2500 is equipped with 10 CPU cores like its predecessor; It could also support LPDDR5T RAM. If enough changes can be made to the Exynos 2500, Samsung's new in-house chipset could be more competitive with the powerhouse known as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
