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<\/p>\nJun 23 2025<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s\u00a0far later into 2025<\/a>\u00a0than Samsung likely hoped for, but its\u00a0Exynos 2500 chipset is finally official<\/a>, just ahead of next month\u2019s rumored Unpacked.<\/p>\n The Exynos 2500 is Samsung\u2019s first to be built on a 3nm GAA node, a big upgrade over the 4nm process used on the Exynos 2400. As such, it should bring some pretty major efficiency improvements over its direct predecessor. That should be good news for Samsung\u2019s foundry business, which has\u00a0found itself in some pretty poor comparisons<\/a>\u00a0with TSMC over the past few years. Samsung says the Exynos 2500 also relies on fan-out wafer-level packaging, or FOWLP, to deliver a slimmer chipset and \u201cenhanced heat dissipation.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not quite up to par with the Snapdragon 8 Elite\u2019s raw horsepower, but the Exynos 2500 still sounds worthy of its flagship status. It\u2019s rocking a 1+7+2 CPU core arrangement, complete with Arm\u2019s latest Cortex-X925 (n\u00e9e Cortex-X5, which Samsung still uses in its footnotes) rated at 3.3GHz. Its Cortex-A725 performance cores are divided into two groups \u2014 two cores clocked at 2.74GHz, five clocked at 2.36GHz \u2014 while its two efficiency cores are 1.8GHz Cortex-A520s. Samsung says the move to Arm\u2019s Cortex-X5 alone should deliver 15 percent improvements over the Exynos 2400 in \u201cbig-core performance.\u201d<\/p>\n Elsewhere, the 4th-gen Xclipse 950 GPU includes support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing, along with repeated support for 4K video output at 120FPS. Its NPU \u2014 always a talking point for chipset companies these days \u2014 is 39 percent faster at processing on-device AI applications, something crucial to practically every Samsung smartphone right now. Its camera capabilities, however, appear unchanged from the Exynos 2400; like last-gen, we\u2019re looking at 320MP sensor support and 8K30 video recording.<\/p>\n Perhaps most curious \u2014 especially when talking about a new Samsung chip \u2014 is its modem. Samsung\u2019s being coy about what modem it\u2019s using, delivering a list of specs without specifically referring to anything by name. The company\u2019s Exynos 5400 modem, previously found in last year\u2019s Pixel 9 series, is a near-match on these listed specs, but with slower FR1 and FR2 maximum download speeds.<\/p>\n While flagship Exynos chips typically don\u2019t leave much of an impact on North America, that could change in just a short couple of weeks. The Galaxy Z Flip 7 is rumored to be running on the Exynos 2500 globally<\/a>, and with today\u2019s announcement, the stars are finally starting to align. Samsung\u2019s next foldables are coming on July 9th, and you can reserve your phone without obligations using the link above to receive a $50 credit if and when you pre-order.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/06\/samsung-exynos-2500-specs.png?w=1024\")
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