Earlier this month, a report from South Korea claimed that Samsung was planning to make use of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset for all of the gadgets within the Galaxy S25 collection. It was opposite to earlier leaks which mentioned that the corporate would solely use Qualcomm’s chipset for the Galaxy S25 Extremely globally. As for the Galaxy S25 Plus and the Galaxy S25, it could use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 for some international locations and the in-house Exynos 2500 SoC for others. Now, a leak says in any other case however there’s a catch.
A screenshot reveals a Samsung cellphone operating Exynos 2500
On X (previously Twitter), @theonecid, a well-liked tipster, has posted a screenshot from an app that reveals the {hardware} and software program particulars of a tool. In keeping with the picture, the gadget on which the screenshot was taken comes from Samsung, options the s5e9955 chipset (it’s the mode variety of the Exynos 2500), a 10-core CPU, Xclipse 950 GPU (the GPU Samsung is anticipated to make use of within the subsequent technology chipset), 14GB RAM, Android 15, and a show with 3,200 x 1,440 pixels decision.
Since Samsung normally makes use of a flagship Exynos chipset in solely flagship smartphones, the tipster says that this gadget is the Galaxy S25, and because the screenshot reveals, it makes use of the Exynos 2500 SoC. Primarily based on this assumption, he says that the Galaxy S25 won’t use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset solely as a earlier report had prompt.
However that does not imply it’s a Galaxy S25 collection cellphone
Properly, of us at Android Authority made a eager remark. The System Identify class within the picture mentions the time period ‘ERD.’ In keeping with the publication, this time period most likely means ‘Exynos Reference Design.’ It implies that this may very well be a tool used for testing the Exynos 2500 SoC and won’t essentially be a Galaxy S25 collection cellphone.
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If that’s true then it implies that there’s nonetheless a risk that the Galaxy S25 collection smartphones will solely use the Qualcomm’s upcoming chipset. Reportedly, Samsung needs to make use of “solely the very best efficiency elements” for the upcoming flagship telephones to take away all doubts from folks’s minds about their efficiency. That’s one of many causes it’s mentioned to be planning to make use of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 for the Galaxy S25 collection as a substitute of the Exynos 2500.
There’s nonetheless hope
Apple has simply launched the iPhone 16 collection. These are the corporate’s first AI-focused smartphones, that includes Apple Intelligence. If Samsung needs to compete strongly with the Cupertino-based tech large on the AI entrance, it must use a extra succesful chipset for the Galaxy S25 collection to supply extra highly effective AI options, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is claimed to match or surpass the efficiency of iPhone 16’s A18 SoC.
In the mean time, it’s all simply hypothesis. We haven’t had a single leak that provides a strong proof concerning the chipset within the Galaxy S25 collection. With the subsequent Galaxy Unpacked occasion no less than 5 months away, we must always begin getting benchmark leaks within the subsequent couple of months. These leaks will give us a greater concept concerning the upcoming telephones’ internals. Comply with us on Telegram or WhatsApp to be the primary to learn about these leaks.
