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Samsung recently announced the Exynos 2400 chipset that will power the Galaxy S24 series. It was more of a teaser than an announcement as the company didn’t go into spec details. However, leaks and benchmark listings have already revealed plenty about it. We know that the new chip will be a deca-core solution, i.e. it will feature ten CPU cores. A fresh rumor says that Samsung’s Exynos 2500 chip for the Galaxy S25 will keep this CPU configuration.
Galaxy S25’s Exynos 2500 to be a deca-core chip
Samsung has been making Exynos-branded smartphone chips for a long time, but those solutions have historically underperformed compared to competing Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm. The performance gap got so wide a couple of years back that the company ditched Exynos and shipped the Galaxy S23 series with Snapdragon processors globally. While everyone appreciated this move, it caused a massive loss of revenue for the firm’s semiconductor business.
For the Galaxy S24 series, Samsung is now going back to its usual dual-chip strategy. Unsurprisingly, fans aren’t happy, as the Exynos 2400 appears to lag behind the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The company plans to fix this seemingly never-ending problem with custom processors. Its smartphone division is working on making custom chips for flagship Galaxy models, rather than buying Exynos chips from the semiconductor division.
The first custom Galaxy processor is expected to arrive in 2025 with the Galaxy S25 series. It’s unclear whether Samsung will call the chip the Exynos 2500 or give it some other name (let’s call it by that name for the time being). X tipster @OreXda has been sharing details about the Korean firm’s work on the project since the early days. They recently claimed that the upcoming chip will feature a deca-core CPU configuration in a 1+3+2+4 setup.
It should be Samsung’s first 3nm processor
The Exynos 2500 is expected to be the first Samsung chip built on a 3nm process node. It should also use ARM’s next-gen CPU cores. We should get one Cortex-X5 prime core, three Cortex-A730 mid-cores at a higher speed, two Cortex-A730 mid-cores at a lower speed, and four Cortex-A520 efficiency cores. The Exynos 2400 uses the latest ARM CPUs in a 1+2+3+4 setup, so the Exynos 2500 will have an additional faster mid-core.
The precise clock speeds of the CPUs are currently missing. The Exynos 2400 has its Cortex-X4 prime core clocked at 3.21GHz, two Cortex-A720 cores at 2.90GHz, three more Cortex-A720 cores at 2.59GHz, and four Cortex-A520 cores at 1.96GHz. The next-gen solution may have a little faster prime core. It remains to be seen whether finally fixes those power and performance issues Exynos chips have had for years.