Exynos 2600 GPU Benchmarks Hint at Big Win for Samsung

It’s been a while since Samsung announced the Exynos 2600, which brings the new Xclipse 960 GPU and big promises for graphics performance. Samsung says the GPU can deliver up to twice the performance of the Xclipse 950 in the Exynos 2500. We’ll need real-world testing to see if that holds up, but recent benchmark results already give us reason to pay attention.

Exynos 2600 GPU tops 25,000 points with impressive consistency

As highlighted by @BairroGrande on X, several recent Exynos 2600 GPU results on Geekbench 6 OpenCL are impressive. What stands out is the consistency. Multiple runs land in the ~25,000 range, which suggests Samsung may have finally improved sustained GPU performance.

That matters because heat and throttling have often been weak points for past Exynos chips, especially in gaming. This time, Samsung is using its new 2nm GAA process and pairing it with Heat Path Block technology to move heat away from the chip more efficiently. If both are working as intended, that could explain why GPU performance is not dropping off quickly under load.

What makes these results more interesting is that they beat the current top scores on Geekbench OpenCL for mobile devices. The Xclipse 960 is also outperforming some Windows-on-Arm laptops using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite GPUs in the same test, which you wouldn’t normally expect from a phone chip. For context, the previous Xclipse 950 scored much lower, making this a generational jump rather than a small step forward.

Of course, benchmarks don’t tell the whole story. Real game performance, frame stability, and thermals over long sessions will matter far more once Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+ are in users’ hands. Still, if these early numbers carry over to retail devices, this could be the year Exynos stops feeling like the weaker option.

As rumored, the Exynos 2600 will show up in the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+ in select markets. According to a leaked timeline, the Galaxy S26 series will be announced in late February and go on sale March 10, so we can’t wait to see how it stacks up against the Snapdragon variant.