Snapdragon-powered Galaxy S26 Ultra smashes Exynos-powered S26 in single-core performance | Infinium-tech

The Samsung Galaxy S26 series will be unveiled next week on Wednesday (February 25). In case you missed them, here are our articles covering all the leaked information for the Galaxy S26 Ultra as well as the Galaxy S26 and S26+.

Either way, you’ve heard by now – the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in all regions, while the Galaxy S26 and S26+ will use the Exynos 2600 in several regions (the exact regions aren’t 100% clear at this point). Here’s a preview of what to expect from those chips, thanks Techmaniacs Who have collected system information and benchmark results from the upcoming phone.

Chipset information: Galaxy S26/S26+ with Exynos 2600 • Galaxy S26 Ultra with SD 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy S26

First of all, we need to note that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will be an overclocked “for Galaxy” variant – its prime core cluster is clocked at 4.74GHz instead of the usual 4.61GHz for the regular Elite Gen 5. It may also be coupled with GPU Boost, but we don’t know for sure yet.

This means that the prime core (Orion V3) on the Snapdragon is clocked almost a full gigahertz higher than the Exynos 2600’s ARM C1-Ultra core (which runs at 3.80GHz). So, it’s no surprise that the Snapdragon chip leads in single-core performance (+16%).

However, the multi-core score is effectively the same as it is within the margin of error (the Exynos 2600 score is 2% lower than the Snapdragon). Of course, it helps that the Exynos 2600 has a deca-core CPU (1+3+6), whereas the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for the Galaxy has “only” eight cores (2+6).

Geekbench 6.6.0 results: Galaxy S26/S26+ (Exynos 2600) • Galaxy S26 Ultra (for Galaxy SD 8 Gen 5 Elite)

It’s not listed in the screenshot above, but all three Galaxy S26 models have 12GB of RAM as base. There should be a 16GB option on the S26 Ultra, but it’s only for the 1TB variant and we don’t think it’s being tested.

For more details on the S26 trio, check out our “What to Expect” post.

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