Galaxy S26 successor: Samsung appears to already be testing the Exynos 2700
The first reaction to an Exynos 2700 test on Geekbench in early 2026 is likely to be the obvious question of its authenticity. Indeed, the screenshot of a supposed Samsung Exynos 2700 test system, first shared by Abhishek Yadav on X, doesn't appear to be a fake, at least not an obvious one. The test officially appears in the in the Geekbench database and shows no anomalies. However, as we know from past experience, this isn't conclusive proof of authenticity – it could also be a rooted smartphone with forged configuration files.
If the model with the number S5E9975 ERD is indeed a Samsung test system for the successor to the Exynos 2600, it's currently performing very poorly. The performance of the GPU was measured here, which, as expected, is a Samsung Xclipse 970 and, according to Geekbench, is equipped with 4 compute units at a clock speed of 555 MHz. That is about half as much and half as fast as the Exynos 2600 test system, which has already made its mark on Geekbench several times. Considering that the GPU is only about half as powerful, the result of 15,618 points in the OpenCL test is not too bad, but of course still significantly below the level of the Exynos 2600 test system.
Strange cluster configuration
Not only is the GPU configuration of this potential Exynos 2700 prototype unusual, but so is the CPU, which once again turns out to be a deca-core, albeit with a very unusual 1-4-1-4 cluster configuration. The clock frequencies of 2.3 GHz, 2.4 GHz, 2.78 GHz and 2.88 GHz are probably far from final and very low. In the Exynos 2600, the prime core runs at 3.8 GHz (3.55 GHz in the test system above). We don't yet know which ARM cores will be used here; presumably, it will be a successor to the ARM Lumex architecture introduced last year, which is currently used in the Exynos 2600 for the Galaxy S26 und Galaxy S26+. Like the Exynos 2600, the Exynos 2700 is also likely to be a 2nm chipset and potentially intended for the Galaxy S27 and Galaxy S27+ in some regions.
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