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Test preview: How fast is the Samsung Exynos 2500 compared to the Snapdragon 8 Elite?

Samsung Exynos 2500 in review (Image source: Daniel Schmidt)
Samsung Exynos 2500 in review (Image source: Daniel Schmidt)
We received the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 for our review. In Europe, buyers of the foldable smartphone do not get a Qualcomm chipset, but Samsung's own Exynos 2500. Is Europe at a disadvantage once again? We take a closer look at the performance using our benchmark tests.

In contrast to the larger Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 the small Galaxy Z Flip 7 (available at Amazon) is powered by Samsung's own Exynos 2500 and not by the current High-end chipset from Qualcomm - at least in Europe.

The Samsung Exynos 2500 is the first SoC to be manufactured using Samsung's new 3nm GAA process. The chipset integrates a total of 10 cores. The deca-core chip uses a 3.3 Ghz Cortex-X925 prime core, two Cortex-A725 cores with 2.75 Ghz each, five frugal Cortex-A725 cores (2.36 Ghz) and two efficiency cores based on the Cortex-A520, which operate at 1.8 Ghz.

The graphics unit in the Samsung Exynos 2500 is the Xclipse 950 with a clock speed of 1.3 GHz and AMD's RDNA 3.5 technology including ray tracing support.

Snapdragon 8 Elite still the measure of all things

The CPU performance of the Exynos 2500 in the Galaxy Z Flip 7 cannot keep up with the current flagship chipset from Qualcomm. The Samsung chipset in the Galaxy Z Flip 7 scores with 2478 points in single core and 8098 in multi core in the Geekbench 6. This puts the Samsung SoC around 8 to 20 percent below the scores of a Galaxy Fold7 and Xiaomi Mix Flip 2.

As NPU performance is also becoming increasingly important for smartphones, let's also take a look at the Geekbench AI results. If we compare the results of the Galaxy Flip7 to the Xiaomi counterpart with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, we see an even larger performance gap of up to 32 percent.

Further benchmark tests will follow shortly in our detailed review.

Geekbench 6.5
Multi-Core
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7
9317 Points +15%
Xiaomi Mix Flip 2
9183 Points +13%
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7
8098 Points
Single-Core
Xiaomi Mix Flip 2
3084 Points +24%
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7
2703 Points +9%
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7
2478 Points
Geekbench AI
Quantized NPU 1.5
Xiaomi Mix Flip 2
1274 Points +48%
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7
973 Points +13%
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7
862 Points
Half Precision NPU 1.5
Xiaomi Mix Flip 2
633 Points +48%
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7
463 Points +8%
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7
428 Points
Single Precision NPU 1.5
Xiaomi Mix Flip 2
625 Points +41%
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7
482 Points +9%
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7
443 Points

Legend

 
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 Samsung Exynos 2500, Samsung Xclipse 950, 256 GB UFS 4.0 Flash
 
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy, Qualcomm Adreno 830, 256 GB UFS 4.0 Flash
 
Xiaomi Mix Flip 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite, Qualcomm Adreno 830, 512 GB UFS 4.1 Flash

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Test of the Galaxy Z Flip7

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Marcus Herbrich, 2025-08-30 (Update: 2025-08-30)