Just a month after the launch of Samsung‘s latest flagship processor, the Exynos 2600, it looks like the brand has already started testing its successor. This upcoming processor, dubbed the “Exynos 2700” has appeared in an early Geekbench listing, showing a big change from the current Exynos 2600.
The new chip uses a four-cluster CPU design with 10 cores total. It has one core at 2.30GHz, four cores at 2.40GHz, one core at 2.78GHz, and four cores at 2.88GHz. This is different from the Exynos 2600’s three-cluster setup, which has one core at 3.8GHz, three cores at 3.26GHz, and six cores at 2.76GHz.
Tipster Abhishek Yadav identified the chip as the Exynos 2700. The test device ran Android 16 with 12GB of RAM and featured the new Xclipse 970 GPU. This GPU replaces the Xclipse 960 from the Exynos 2600. The Xclipse 970 looks weaker on paper. The listing shows four compute units, a 555MHz maximum frequency, and 1GB of device memory. The Xclipse 960 has eight compute units, a 980MHz peak frequency, and 4GB of device memory. The OpenCL score dropped to 15,618, compared to roughly 25,791 on Exynos 2600 devices.
This result likely comes from an Engineering Reference Device board. These boards are used for early internal testing and run at lower clock speeds with unfinished software. Final retail performance should be higher. Samsung launched the Exynos 2600 in December 2024 with the Galaxy S26 series in select markets. The Exynos 2700 is expected to power future flagship models, though Samsung hasn’t confirmed which devices. The switch to a 10-core, four-cluster design shows Samsung is still testing new processor layouts before launch.
Earlier reports called the Exynos 2700 a key 2027 flagship chip, codenamed Ulysses, likely for the Galaxy S27 series. Previous leaks said it would be built on Samsung Foundry’s second-generation 2nm SF2P process, using Gate-All-Around architecture to improve performance and power efficiency. Rumors also mentioned next-generation ARM C2 CPU cores, advanced thermal packaging, a new AMD-based Xclipse GPU, LPDDR6 memory, and UFS 5.0 storage.
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(via: Abhishek Yadav)
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