Igeekphone News, October 22nd: Technology media Notebook Check published a blog post today (October 22nd), reporting that Samsung’s next-generation flagship chip Exynos 2600 appeared in the GeekBench benchmarking database. The single-core score of version 6.5.0 is 3047 points, and the multi-core score is 10025 points. Compared with the test scores in late August (3309 points for single-core and 11256 points for multi-core), there is a significant decline.
This new score is not only far lower than the earlier expectations, but even lags behind the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Ultra processor (about 3186 for single-core and about 10042 for multi-core), which has been applied in devices such as the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.
There is a clear technical reason behind the decline in benchmark scores: Samsung has reduced the main frequency of chip testing. Igeekphone Note: The latest Geekbench entry shows that the CPU core frequency configuration of the Exynos 2600 is “6 2.46GHz cores + 3 2.96GHz cores + 1 3.55GHz core”.
In the previous test, its frequency configuration was much higher, being “6 2.76GHz cores + 3 3.26GHz cores + 1 3.80GHz core”. The reduction in the main frequency directly led to a decrease in the original processing capacity.
There are two possible explanations in the industry for this frequency reduction. In the worst-case scenario, Samsung may have discovered a severe Thermal Throttling issue during the test, meaning that the heat generated by the chip under high load exceeds the ideal range and the frequency has to be reduced to maintain stability. Another more optimistic possibility is that Samsung is currently only testing the energy efficiency performance of its chips at lower frequencies.