Samsung has unveiled its flagship ten-core Exynos 2500 chipset with huge performance gains and hardware ray tracing

By: Anton Kratiuk | 23.06.2025, 12:52
Exynos 2500: Samsung's Next-Gen Chipset Sparks Tech Curiosity Exynos 2500. Source: Samsung

Samsung has officially unveiled its new flagship Exynos 2500 mobile processor, which is the company's first chip to be manufactured using the 3nm GAA (Gate-All-Around) process, which will provide significant performance, power efficiency and artificial intelligence capabilities.

Here's What We Know

Exynos 2500 got a ten-core CPU and has the following configuration of cores:

  • one Cortex X5 core (aka Cortex-X925) at 3.3GHz
  • two Cortex-A725 cores at 2.74 GHz
  • five Cortex-A725 cores at 2.36 GHz
  • two 1.8GHz Cortex-A520 cores.

Graphics are handled by the Xclipse 950 GPU, based on AMD's RDNA 3 architecture, with ray tracing support and FPS gains of up to 28 per cent over its predecessor.

Samsung has paid special attention to the next-generation NPU, which can perform up to 59 trillion operations per second, 39% higher than the Exynos 2400. This paves the way for advanced generative AI features locally on the device.

The chipset supports cameras up to 320MP, 8K video recording at 30 FPS, displays up to 4K resolution at 120Hz, as well as LPDDR5X memory and UFS 4.0 storage.

The built-in Exynos 5400 modem provides 5G connectivity at up to 12.1Gbps, as well as satellite support for emergency messaging.

The first Exynos 2500-powered device is rumoured to be the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7, which is expected to be unveiled An insider has revealed the date of the Galaxy Unpacked presentation - Samsung will unveil the foldable flagships Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 very soon on July 9.

Source: Samsung