Samsung is preparing to launch its Galaxy S25 series in early 2025, likely in January. Galaxy S25 Ultra may feature the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, but standard Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+ models may not.
The latest update came from the benchmarking platform Geekbench, where a Samsung Galaxy S25+ with Exynos 2500 was recently spotted. According to Geekbench 6, the Galaxy S25+ achieved a single-core score of 2,359 and a multi-core score of 8,141 under model number SM-S936B for the European market. It runs Android 15 and boasts 12GB of RAM, giving us a glimpse of the phone’s hardware.
Exynos 2500 powering the device has a 10-core CPU clocked at 3.3GHz. Xclipse 950 GPU is also available on this chipset, which is based on AMD’s RDNA architecture. Multi-core performance of the Exynos 2500 is close to that of the Snapdragon 8 Elite. In terms of single-core performance, the Exynos 2500 lags significantly behind 8 Elite.
Exynos phones may not be as resource-intensive as phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite or Dimensity 9400 chips, which offer high-resolution or frame-rate recording capabilities. As a reminder, this is only a benchmark result. It usually only takes a couple of minutes for the phone to overheat during these tests.
