The Galaxy S26 series is "definitely" bringing back Exynos, writes leakster

31 March 2025
The Exynos 2600 will be fabbed on Samsung's SF2, a 2nm node with third-generation Gate All Around tech.

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Solun1, 11 hours agoPS.: I did make some screenshots and even short videos of t... moreWell, I'll quote you then.

"People talking about it or not doesn't matter, I'm talking about it"

Using such arguments in a tech forum is weird, people are here because this is what they're interested in. As long as Samsung cannot match Snapdragon performance and continues charging the same premium while it being a forced sale in certain markets, Exynos will remain a bad product.

Simple as that.

    S I R E, 02 Apr 2025That's an extraordinary claim. Even if I take your ... morePS.: I did make some screenshots and even short videos of the thing, but it was a year ago and I don't think I'll ever do a YT video about it, I don't do that. Why people don't talk about it online, I don't know, but maybe you just overestimate how interested people really are in this.

      S I R E, 02 Apr 2025That's an extraordinary claim. Even if I take your ... moreWell, I'm just telling you my personal experience, I didn't make it up.

      If Exynos is shit, I will call it shit. At this point I don't think that.

      I don't know why no one mentions different graphics handling between certain processors, but the difference is night and day with certain effects.

      For example in the game I mentioned, there is a character/monster which can "throw up" on good characters or items to infect them (context doesn't matter). These infected characters and items then produce kind of a toxic greenish smoke to show they're infected. This smoke/odour was graphically intense and with the same game version and exact same graphics settings on Exynos it would look detailed, crisp and clear, like if the odour animation was in a high resolution and like if it had it's own "shadows" and reflections, and on Snapdragon it would look like some generic greenish smoke effect. Sadly this did make the Exynos phone hotter and FPS would be lower if you'd put the mentioned infection effect in the center of the screen, and Snapdragon phone had better FPS when focusing on this effect but it actually looked bad (when side by side).

      And Samsung cheating was not great, but fortunately they got cought and now everyone can choose if they play games with Samsung cheating on or off. I think I always played with Samsung cheating turned ON, but not 100% sure. I did follow this "scandal", no need for me to look it up.

      People talking about something (or not talking about it) on social media or YouTube doesn't make anything (un)true. And - I am talking about it :).

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        pl2rts, 01 Apr 2025I go with the one that give me the most for the lower price... moreWell. If you want the best of best you should go for dragon. Unless you want an iPhone.

          Solun1, 01 Apr 2025Okay, I said 3x more expensive, but it was less, I paid abo... moreThat's an extraordinary claim.

          Even if I take your word at face value, that is likely Samsung messing with Qualcomm chips because quite literally nobody else has ever mentioned such a thing ever. Qualcomm is actually known for it's stronger GPU for a good few years now.

          This is even more plausible considering Samsung was cought cheating in performance tests via there game booster app, they would let the SoC run on normal clocks when benchmarking apps were detected and lower the clocks on older (even by a year) devices to make it seem the user needed to upgrade their device.

          This is a well documented issue and you can easily find these videos on YouTube unlike your claim of lower resolution and weirt artifacts.

          Moreover, these aspects are no longer in Qualcomms hands since Samsung is responsible for everything from bootloader, kernel and OS once they have the chip so if what you're saying is true, then it is Samsung at either fault or resorting to deliberate malicious practices again.

            S I R E, 01 Apr 202530% is good yield now? I get semiconductor manufacturing... moreI guess it gets worse the smaller you go (meaning size in nm).

              Anonymous, 01 Apr 2025Always go for dragon.I go with the one that give me the most for the lower price and i dont really care for the chip brand. I wont have the issues that the stress testers have.

              Even tough my last phone had SD636 and my present phone have SD 7+ gen 2, i didnt get them cause of the chip. I got the SD636 phone cause of the price was 170 and had less bezels at the time year 2018 start. The present phone i got for the reason it was good performance numbers in Antutu and cause it have 3.5mm jack. If it would of had Mediatek like D8300 then i would of got it with that. But that was half a year later when that come out and didnt also have 3.5mm jack. Why i wanted more performance was that the phone last longer and be still fast on operating it by opening apps and so on wont take a long time so the phone would not get much of stress to matter what chip brand is in the phone

                Xeron , 01 Apr 2025It's not 1% get your facts right, plus snapdragon does... moreSo do you know the right percentage of people who can make difference in exynos and snapdragon and all the heating things and so on ?

                I dont think that the percentage is large. It's already really low number of people who comment on the tech sites and so on. And it's also mostly younger generation who comment in the tech sites.

                If you dont like the number then deal with it. There is no fact or a statistics made on the case to know any number. It's like majority of Apple buyers dont actually know anything about tech and they are just sold with the advertising that the thing is good and you must have it. The same is with Samsung. There are like billion people who have Samsung phone so even that 1% of them is already 10.000.000 people so do your own math for what ever facts suit your point of view

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                  pl2rts, 01 Apr 2025Only like 1% of the phone market care about is it a Exynos ... moreIt's not 1% get your facts right, plus snapdragon does heat but hold its performance much better than mediatek

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                    pl2rts, 01 Apr 2025Only like 1% of the phone market care about is it a Exynos ... moreAlways go for dragon.

                      S I R E, 01 Apr 2025It matters when you're paying the same extremely premi... moreOkay, I said 3x more expensive, but it was less, I paid about 16 000 CZK for the Note20 Ultra (I didn't say S20 Ultra btw) and about 38 000 CZK for the S24 Ultra.

                      It is an open question if Snapdragon is actually the better processor. In some games, it processed video effects differently. It toned them down. Some effects in 3D games looked worse on Snapdragon compared to Exynos. I had two devices for gaming, on the exact same graphics setting some things looked noticeably worse on Snapdragon, and I would call that a scam on the side of Qualcomm. They turned off or compressed certain graphic elements in order to have higher FPS. Exynos didn't do this. For example in the notoriously demanding game Dead by Daylight Mobile which I played for five years almost daily, things like smoke and other effects looked significantly worse. This was not about the game version, I compared this at the same time in one day. So if you want to really compare processors, you need to look at how they handle different graphics. Naturally, you'd see a higher score and stability with Snapdragon in a benchmark or even in the same game, but the game would actually look worse. In my own view, that makes Snapdragon inferior at least in some way, because I'm not paying a premium to see watered-down effects in games that I play.

                        Only like 1% of the phone market care about is it a Exynos mediatek or snapdragon and never mind that the majority dont care and dont even understand the difference

                        It still works for them and for the people who game they complain even with snapdragon on the heating. As there are no test done on a phones to compare the heating as same model where the difference is only the chip brand.

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                          Doesn't really matter to me because they'll still use Snapdragon in the US anyway. It will be interesting to compare the two versions though once again.

                            Solun1, 01 Apr 2025I really don't think it matters if a processor is a fe... moreIt matters when you're paying the same extremely premium for the SoC and being forced to buy an inferior product in comparison to other markets for the same model.

                            Sure I will take your word that you see no performance difference in 2 devices 4 years apart even though the whole issue began because people noticed a difference to the same generation of chips by Qualcomm.

                            I don't understand how you came to the conclusion that S24U is 3x the price of S20U because that implies that at 1400 USD divided by 3, S20U was about $366 USD and that's just... Maths is not mathing there...

                            Think of a simpler analogy used commonly, even though most rich people are never gonna race with there expensive cars, they do buy it, some even get it tested on dynos to verify power. It's not about whether *you* can use it, it's about what you paid for.

                            And the point where you say why bother with something people aren't gonna buy... well, it sets a standard practice rule in the market, every business wants to push the limits on how little can they sell to the customer before a backlash.

                            Feature deaths you mentioned are a result of that, apple calls it courage when removing audio jacks, samsung follows suit, smaller brands follow suit and the vicious cycle never stops.

                            Real sad part is that some enlightened people belittle, insult, demean and negate people who bring up these issues still like SD Cards and Audio jacks and now even expensive phones shipping with USB 2.

                            Turning a blind eye just once snowballs into a huge problem, nobody should be given a free pass for bad practices.

                              I really don't think it matters if a processor is a few points behind nr. 1, in real world usage it doesn't matter whatsoever. There are hundreds of processors, maybe thousands at this point, and no matter which one you have, even if it's number 1 by a few points, it won't be number 1 in just a few months before something better comes up. Our obsession with benchmark points leads nowhere, only to dissatisfaction. I had the Note20 Ultra Exynos and it was a superb phone, and it was NOT slower than my current S24 Ultra. Meanwhile my S24 Ultra cost me 3x as much as the Note20 Ultra, and several features got removed. What I gained by upgrading? I thought a much better battery life and superb power in games, but in reality none of those things happened, my phone lasts about the same (yeah, I do have a bit sharper resolution but that's barely noticeable). And games run the same as with Exynos 990. So if you get only the second best processor in the world with the S26 Ultra, maybe just don't buy it? Hating on a product that you don't need is pretty lame. I mean I hate on them for removing features and not adding anything except stupid AI, but I really don't have a problem with their processors no matter which one they used.

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                                does this mean they will have budget to make some upgrades on rebranded s22 (aka s25)?

                                  hev.c, 31 Mar 2025I doubt that people who are willing to spend upwards of 100... more"I doubt that people who are willing to spend upwards of 1000 dollars on a phone would assume it has larger cameras just because of the camera rings 🤣"

                                  Again, I work in a store that sells accessories for these devices, so yes I know that some do think like that. Plus of course most just think that newer is better, higher resolution is better etc..

                                    Anonymous, 01 Apr 2025Can you put a camera lens protector on your phone? Nope bec... moreYeah, I can.

                                    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Protector-Compatible-VIVO-Note-Anti-Shatter/dp/B09Z2P34J3

                                      oh nyo....will it finally be a good performing chip with stable temps?

                                        hev.c, 31 Mar 2025They're not fake. They do their job of improving durab... moreNo, people do really think that larger camera housings means larger camera lenses
                                        I have a Poco F6 and people all commented this when they examine the design

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