All Exynos 2500 hopes are fading away.
All the t-shirt tearing and “will they, won’t they” sobbing over which chipset will Samsung use for the Galaxy S25 series have slowly come to a close, with various independent sources reporting that the three phones will only be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4).
While we do have benchmarks with its homebrew Exynos 2500 processor on board, there are plenty more Samsung Galaxy S25 units benchmarked with Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4). The last one in that panopticon on Geekbench is none other than the Korean version of the Galaxy S25 which, surprise, surprise, carries a Qualcomm chipset.
Samsung Galaxy S25 benchmark. | Image credit – Geekbench
If even the lowly S25 won’t ship with an Exynos in the home turf, then all hope is lost, and we may only see the Exynos 2500 in a phone at a much later date, perhaps as far out as the Galaxy Z Fold 7 even, since the S25 slim is said to come with Snapdragon 8 Elite, while the S25 FE may don a MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset.
