Samsung Plans Major Upgrades for Exynos 2700

Samsung is reportedly gearing up to bring a meaningful upgrade to its next-gen in-house processor, the Exynos 2700. A fresh leak now suggests the chip could deliver a major boost in performance, efficiency, and thermal management over the latest Exynos 2600. If the company uses this processor in the Galaxy S27 series, it should be a solid upgrade for its flagship phones.

Exynos 2700 leak reveals impressive performance and efficiency gains over predecessor

X user @BairroGrande shed light on the Exynos 2700 (codenamed Ulysses), expected to launch in 2027. According to the leak, the main focus of the new chip appears to be addressing thermal bottlenecks through advancements in lithography, core architecture, and physical packaging.

Based on Samsung’s second-generation 2nm process (SF2P), Exynos 2700 may deliver noticeable gains in both performance and power efficiency. The process could offer up to a 12% increase in performance while reducing power consumption by 25% compared to the SF2 node. The refined Gate-All-Around (GAA) structure could allow the prime CPU core to hit stable clock speeds of up to 4.2 GHz.

As for CPU, Exynos 2700 may use next-generation ARM Cortex-C2 cores. This could lead to a 35% increase in IPC. The leak suggests Geekbench 6 benchmark scores of around 4,800 points in single-core and 15,000 points in multi-core tests. This is a gain of about 40% and 30%, respectively, over the Exynos 2600’s scores.

For thermal management, Samsung may use FOWLP-SbS (Side-by-Side) packaging technology in Exynos 2700. This solution places the DRAM and Die in a horizontal arrangement instead of stacking them vertically. Thanks to the Heat Path Block (a small copper-based heatsink), it reduces heat buildup and improves heat dissipation during sustained workloads.

Furthermore, the next-gen Xclipse GPU could also improve Exynos 2700’s graphics performance. Thanks to faster LPDDR6 memory and UFS 5.0 storage, data transfer speeds could increase by 80% to 100% over the Exynos 2600. As such, the next-gen chip should deliver up to 40% better performance. For now, Exynos 2600 is drawing attention, as it may power some units of the Galaxy S26 series.