Exynos 2500 officially unveiled ahead of Galaxy Z Flip 7 launch

Samsung has officially shown off its new Exynos 2500 SoC ahead of its proposed debut alongside the Galaxy Z Flip 7. It confirms earlier speculations and gives us more details about its innards. As foretold by an earlier Geekbench listing, it comes with a 10-core CPU and a Xclipse GPU based on AMD's RDNA 3 architecture.

The 10-core CPU features a Cortex-X925 clocked at 3.3 GHz, two Cortex-A725 cores at 2.76 GHz, give Cortex-A725 cores at 2.36 GHz and one Cortex-A520 core at 1.80 GHz. Samsung says its AMD RDNA 3-based Xclipse 950 GPU has 8 WGPs (16 CUs), offering a 28% increase in frame rates compared to the Exynos 2400. The GPU can supposedly drive a 4K/WQUXGA display at up to 120 Hz.

Other Exynos 2500 specs include support for a 320 MP camera module, paving the way for future sensors that might support the resolution. Additionally, it can record video at up to 8K 30 FPS. Like the Exynos 2400, the 2500 comes with a dual NPU that is supposedly 90% faster than its predecessor. Wireless connectivity features include Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, 5G and satellite.

The Exynos 2500 will Samsung's first smartphone SoC manufactured on its 3 nm (likely 3 GAP) node. It supports LPDDR5X memory and UFS 4.1 storage. On paper, it should be more power efficient compared to the Exynos 2400 due to its GAAFET-based manufacturing process, but the presence of just one E-core might make its real-world implementation tricky.