Exynos 2500 trades blows with the Snapdragon 8 Elite in GPU benchmark but lags behind in CPU performance

A few weeks ago, Samsung quietly unveiled the Exynos 2500 as its flagship chipset for the year. While the Exynos 2500 isn't widely expected to keep up with its peers in the CPU department, it appears things may be different on the GPU side.

As shared by Abhishek Yadav, the Exynos 2500 on Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Z Flip7 records a score of 18,601 on Geekbench's OpenCL test. That's a respectable score, as Geekbench's official chart lists the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy-powered Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra with 18,365 on the same test. 

While this is just one benchmark—and, as such, not definitive evidence of the chipset's performance—it does seem like the Exynos 2500's RDNA 3-based Xclipse 950 GPU will be competent at the very least. That isn't particularly surprising, as the Exynos 2400 outpaced the A17 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 on a several GPU benchmarks as well. 

Things are less impressive on the CPU side, unfortunately. The Galaxy Z Flip7 in its "SM-F766B" guise has made multiple trips to Geekbench and mostly underperformed. The last of those visits saw the foldable score 2,313 and 7,965 on the single-core and multi-core tests respectively, with both of those scores indicating CPU performance merely on par with last year's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. 

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