Samsung Launches Exynos 2500 Deca-Core SoC Ahead of Galaxy Unpacked: Galaxy Z Flip7 to Get a Big AI and Performance Boost

Samsung, in a very strategic manner, has officially launched its next-generation processor dubbed the Exynos 2500, which is a Deca-Core SoC. The company unveiled its new processor just days before its highly anticipated Galaxy Unpacked 2025. This powerful deca-core SoC is expected to power the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 7, marking a big leap in performance and efficiency for Samsung’s foldable lineup.

Here’s What we know so far about the latest Exynos 2500 SoC:

The latest processor from Samsung, the Exynos 2500 SoC is built on the company’s advanced 3nm GAA (Gate-All-Around) process. The processor is designed to deliver the better energy efficiency and improved graphics. Other than this, the processor is suited to deliver the next-level AI capabilities. With this launch, Samsung is setting the stage for a major hardware upgrade, signaling that the Galaxy Z Flip 7 could be its most powerful foldable device yet.

Samsung Exynos 2500 SoC Specifications

Samsung Exynos 2500 SoC which is a 10-core processor and hence is designed in a tri cluster layout of 1+7+2. The processor is manufactured using company’s advanced 3nm Gate All Around process and the company claims that by incorporating fan-out wafer-level packaging (FOWLP), the chip handles heat more efficiently and provides improved power consumption.

The CPU setup in Exynos 2500 Soc comes with high-performance Cortex-X5 that are clocked at 3.3GHz, two Cortex-A725 cores at 2.74GHz, five more Cortex-A725 cores running at 2.36GHz, and two Cortex-A520 efficiency cores at 1.8GHz. As per company, this CPU performance is 15 percent better than Exynos 2400.

The latest chipset supports LPDDR5x RAM and UFS 4.0 storage for faster memory and data access. Talking about the graphics, the Exynos 2500 features the Xclipse 950 GPU built on AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture which delivers up to 28% higher frame rates in gaming, including hardware-accelerated ray tracing. In addition, the integrated NPU can reach 59 TOPS, offering up to 39% improvement in performance for on-device AI tasks.