We will not have an Exynos 2500 SoC in Europe, the Galaxy S25, S25+ and S25 Ultra will all be equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, which has higher performance.
After several contradictory reports regarding the chip that will equip the Galaxy S25, the South Korean media ETnews comes to make everyone agree with new information. According to the publication, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC will be embedded on all three models in the series worldwide.
Samsung would have revised its plans along the way. Initially, only the Galaxy S25 Ultra should have benefited from the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the Galaxy S25 and S25+ having to make do with it.Exynos 2500developed by the group's semiconductor division. But the latter's performance did not convince Samsung's mobile branch, it was decided to source entirely from Qualcomm for this generation, as for the Galaxy S23.
The Exynos 2500 is no match for the Snapdragon 8 Elite
On this generation, Qualcomm hit hard by switching to a 3nm engravingbut above all by integrating new CPU cores. These are called Oryon and were designed by the start-up Nuvia, acquired by Qualcomm in 2021. They have already proven themselves on chips intended for laptop PCs and will be used for the first time on smartphones with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, whose first benchmarks are impressive.
Samsung in any case considered that the difference in performance between its Exynos 2500 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite was too significant to opt for its own solution. A choice which should cost it dearly, and which could be reflected in the final price of the Galaxy S25. The Exynos 2500 should continue to be optimized and we could find it for example on the future Galaxy S25 FE later in the year.
ETnews we also learn that Samsung will increase the quantity of basic RAM of the Galaxy S25 and S25+, which will go from 8 to 12 GB. In addition, the Galaxy S25 Ultra will be available in a configuration with 16 GB of RAM, which we hadn't seen since the Galaxy S21 Ultra. This additional RAM is undoubtedly linked to the needs of certain artificial intelligence functionalities.
The Galaxy S25 is expected to be announced on January 22, 2025 at a Galaxy Unpacked conference.
Source : ETnews
