The US-bound Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26 Ultra, SM-S942U and SM-S948U, respectively, passed through Geekbench recently with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipsets. Now the SM-S942N, which is the South Korean S26, also ran the benchmark.
As rumors have been suggesting, the Korean model was powered by the Exynos 2600 (S59965). The phone had 12GB of RAM and ran Android 16 (presumably with One UI 8.5 on top).
Samsung Galaxy S26 (SM-S942N) for South Korea: Geekbench 6.5.0 result
The Exynos 2600 is the world’s first 2nm chipset based on Samsung’s 2nm GAA node. It has a 10-core CPU using ARM C1-Ultra and C1-Pro cores. According to Samsung, the new CPU will be 39% faster than the Exynos 2500 CPU.
We don’t put too much stock in pre-release benchmarks, but we know you’re curious, so here’s the SM-S942N (S26 with Exynos 2600), SM-S942U (S26 with Snapdragon) and last year’s S25 (which only featured the Snapdragon 8 Elite).
While it wasn’t part of the test, Geekbench reports a Samsung Xclipse 960 GPU. Samsung claimed that it has double the compute power and 50% higher ray tracing performance compared to the Exynos 2500 GPU, but offered little detail about the architecture. Unofficially, the GPU is said to be based on RDNA 4 (up from RDNA 2 on previous generations).
We still don’t know for certain which regions will see the Exynos-based Galaxy S26 models – we’ve heard Korea and Europe, but we haven’t seen a Euro S26 do Geekbench yet.
