Here's how Exynos 2600 competes with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in AI test

Here's how Samsung's Exynos 2600, which it may use in the Galaxy S26 series, performs against the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in an AI test.

In December, Samsung launched the brand’s latest flagship chipset for mobile devices, the Exynos 2600. The company is expected to use it for its next lineup of non-foldable flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S26 series, at least for some countries.

In other regions, Samsung may offer the Galaxy S26 with Qualcomm’s latest flagship SoC for mobile devices, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Well, today we are learning how the two processors compare when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) performance.

In MLPerf Inference: Mobile benchmark, which evaluates a chipset’s AI performance, Samsung’s Exynos 2600 beats Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in three out of six tests (v ia @BairroGrande), as you can see in the image below.

samsung exynos 2600 versus qualcomm snapdragon 8 elite gen 5 mlperf inference mobile benchmark test

While the Exynos 2600 beats the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in Classification, Detection, and Language tests, the latter triumphs over the former in Segmentation, Super-Res, and Stable Diffusion. It shows that both processors are neck-to-neck when it comes to AI performance.

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Abid Iqbal Shaik - Writer

First Samsung device: Galaxy S II

I’m a computer science engineer living in Hyderabad, India, who has a keen interest in automobiles and consumer electronics. My journalism career kicked off in 2017 with MySmartPrice where I wrote news, features, buying guides, and explanatory articles about technology among other things, and reviewed many products, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, PC components, smartwatches, audio devices, wearables, and smart home products. Since then, I have worked for 91Mobiles, Apple, and Onsitego, before finally landing on SamMobile.

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