Samsung Electronics' latest mobile application processor (AP, a semiconductor that serves as the smartphone's brain), Exynos 2600, is said to have posted performance on par with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite 5th generation in artificial intelligence (AI) benchmarks.
According to the IT outlet SamMobile on the 13th, in the MLPerf Inference Mobile v5.0 results, Exynos 2600 scored higher than the Snapdragon 8 Elite 5th generation in three of six tests—classification, object detection, and natural language.
MLPerf is a benchmark that measures how fast a chipset processes AI and Machine Learning models across various workloads, including image recognition, object recognition, natural language understanding, image partitioning, and super-resolution. The higher the score, the better the AI compute performance is evaluated to be.
Exynos 2600 scored 1,185 points in the natural language understanding institutional sector and 4,661 points in the object detection institutional sector, far outpacing Qualcomm's chip, and it also narrowly led in image classification. However, the Snapdragon posted higher scores in image partitioning, super-resolution, and the Generative AI-related Stable Diffusion category.
Exynos 2600 is an AP produced on Samsung Foundry's cutting-edge 2-nanometer (nm, 1 nm = one-billionth of a meter) Gate-All-Around (GAA) process. Based on the latest Arm architecture with a deca-core (10 cores), central processing unit (CPU) compute performance is up to 39% higher than its predecessor (Exynos 2500), and with a powerful NPU, Generative AI performance improved by 113%.
Exynos 2600 is expected to power Samsung Electronics' flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S26 standard and Plus models, which are slated to be unveiled at the end of this month.