Igeekphone News, August 12th: After months of leaks, rumors and speculations, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 processor has finally made its appearance on Geekbench, more than a month earlier than Qualcomm’s planned official release at the end of September. Meanwhile, we were also able to get a glimpse of the relevant information of Samsung’s flagship model Galaxy S26 Edge (code-named SM-S947U). Therefore, the chip that has emerged this time is very likely the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 For Galaxy, which is specially customized for the Galaxy series.
Igeekphone noticed that in the single-core test of Geekbench 6.4, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 scored 3393 points, and in the multi-core test, it reached 11,515 points. Compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 8 Elite (3087 points for single-core and 8571 points for multi-core), the single-core performance has increased by approximately 10%. However, this achievement was not as astonishing as previously leaked information had suggested. However, upon checking the background data of Geekbench, it was found that the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 For Galaxy tested this time did not reach full speed operation. Its CPU frequency was stable at 4.0GHz instead of its maximum acceleration frequency of 4.74GHz. Obviously, there is still a lot of performance of this chip that has not been released, and this is a relatively common phenomenon in a non-mass production sample.
The specifications of the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 are similar to those of its predecessor, featuring a 6+2 CPU architecture. The E-core can be accelerated up to 3.63GHz at most, and it supports the SME (Scalable Matrix Extension) instruction set mentioned in the previously leaked information. The Galaxy S26 Edge prototype tested this time is equipped with 12 GB of memory and runs Android 16. It is very likely an early version of One UI 8.0.
Judging from the current test results, this is not good news for Samsung’s Exynos 2600. Although the Exynos 2600 made its debut on Geekbench earlier than the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, its performance was not ideal. If the Galaxy S26 Edge does adopt the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, then it can be reasonably inferred that the entire Galaxy S26 series will be equipped with this chip. This is undoubtedly good news for end users, but for Samsung’s contract manufacturing department, it may mean certain challenges.