Samsung Galaxy S26 with Exynos 2600 fails in battery test compared to Snapdragon

While the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is powered worldwide by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the European versions of the Samsung Galaxy S26 ($841 on Amazon) and the Galaxy S26+ rely on the Samsung Exynos 2600. The flagship processor is manufactured using an advanced 2 nm process, which makes it 30 percent cooler than its predecessor.

However, after the Exynos versions of Galaxy S smartphones have repeatedly attracted attention in the past with lower performance and shorter battery life than their Snapdragon counterparts, customers from Europe rightly fear that they will also receive an inferior version of the flagship this year. How exactly the performance of the Exynos 2600 can hold its own against the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will soon be revealed in our detailed test. Android Addicts is already comparing how the European version performs in terms of battery life in direct comparison with the Galaxy S26 from the USA in the video embedded below.

Apparently, there is also bad news for customers from Europe this year. The Exynos 2600 not only overheats when encoding a 4K video, the chip also consumes significantly more power during some tasks. Especially when scrolling through a TikTok and X feed, the chip consumes significantly more energy, but the consumption of the Exynos 2600 is also slightly higher in apps such as Google Maps. In this comparison, this means that the battery of the Samsung Galaxy S26 with Exynos 2600 is exhausted after just 06:48 hours, while the Snapdragon version lasts over two and a half hours or 28% longer at 09:26 hours.