Exynos 2700 appears in a Geekbench benchmark
The Exynos 2700 CPU has reached 2,603 points in the single-core test and 10,350 points in the multi-core benchmark. While that’s not a very impressive score, it’s a clear sign that Samsung is moving forward at a steady pace with the development of the new chip.Those results are achieved with a prototype device running Android 16 with 12 GB of RAM and an Exynos 2700 with the specs:
- 1 prime core at 2.78GHz
- 4 performance cores at 2.88GHz
- 1 low-power core at 2.30GHz
- 4 efficiency cores at 2.40GHz
- Xclipse 970 GPU
It’s an early test
The test includes an ERD identifier at the end of the chipset’s name, which implies that Samsung has used an engineering board to run it. That’s one of several signals that the company is running a very early version of the Exynos 2700 and potentially an early Galaxy S27 software build.
By the time the chipset reaches its final version, we’re almost certainly going to see much higher clock speeds and vastly improved performance of its CPU. The performance of the Xclipse 970 GPU should also exceed the 15,618 score it achieved in a separate OpenCL test earlier this year.
A challenge for Samsung
Samsung is expected to manufacture the Exynos 2700 on an improved 2nm process node, following the 2nm Exynos 2600. That new process is expected to give the Galaxy S27’s chipset a 12% boost in performance and a 25% reduction in power consumption compared to this year’s silicon.
Beyond the CPU, Samsung is also expected to improve the GPU of the upcoming chip. The company is rumored to rely completely on its own resources for the development of the Xclipse 970 and not use any assistance from AMD.
Those improvements and the long testing period could be the key to living up to the expectations for the Galaxy S27 series. While the Exynos 2600-powered Galaxy S26 devices performed better than expected, customers are still skeptical about Samsung’s in-house chips.
This year, Qualcomm is expected to launch the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, while Apple will release the iPhone 18 Pro with the A20 Pro processor. Both chipsets will be follow-up models that have been outperforming Samsung’s best for years.
That lagging performance is part of the reason the Galaxy S26 series features Exynos chips only on some models and in some markets. Samsung’s best device for this year, the Galaxy S26 Ultra, like the whole Galaxy S25 series before it, uses Qualcomm’s top-tier processor.
This is the year
Having one more supplier of cutting-edge mobile processors would be great for the entire market. Qualcomm has been the default for all Android flagship smartphones for years, and I’d love to see how the company would perform under the pressure of a competitor as mighty as Samsung.
