When Samsung released their flagship Galaxy S25 line, many wondered why it only came with a Snapdragon option. Fans of the brand patiently awaited for the upcoming chipset from the tech giant – and it seems like their patience is about to be rewarded. The Samsung Exynos 2500 mobile chipset has officially been unveiled.
The headlining feature is that it is the company’s first mobile processor built on a cutting-edge 3nm Gate All Around (GAA) architecture. This is supposed to translate to higher levels of power efficiency. Improved heat dissipation has also been a focus, all while maintaining a slim profile thanks to fan-out wafer-level packaging (FOWLP).
When it comes to cores, the Exynos 2500 seals the number at ten of them. The highest-clocked one is a Cortex-X5 core rated at 3.3GHz, followed up by two Cortex-A725s at 2.74GHz, five more of the same at 2.36GHz, and a duo of Cortex-A520 cores at 1.8GHz. Samsung’s marketing materials state that the Exynos 2500’s big-core performance has been boosted by 15% over its predecessor, which theoretically should give it better multitasking and heavy-app performance.
This overall theme of power continues on to the graphical side of things. The onboard GPU is the fourth-generation Xclipse 950, combining the brand’s accumulated knowledge with AMD’s RDNA 3 technology. These improvements have been advertised to push gaming FPS up by 28%, even with ray-tracing enabled. Multitasking can be easily performed with speedy LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 storage.
Everything else on the Samsung Exynos 2500 chip is top-shelf stuff. Onboard cameras can have as much as 320-megapixels in resolution, while crystal clear 8K videos can also be filmed with 10-bit HDR in 30 FPS, or a more usable 4K at 120 FPS. These videos can be viewed on the equally-high resolution 4K display with 120Hz refresh rate.
As AI is the future in 2025, the Exynos 2500 can run technologies at a 39% improvement over the previous iteration – thanks to a much stronger NPU capable of up to 59 trillion TOPS. For those with AI-centric lives and consistently make use of generative AI, this is welcome news.
Other notable specs include WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, NFC, and USB 3.2.
The Exynos 2500 is set to debut in the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Flip and Fold series.
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