Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Samsung Exynos 2500

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (97/100)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Samsung Exynos 2500 (78/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:
  • + Higher DeviceBenchmark Score score (97 vs 78)
  • + Higher Performance score (99 vs 82)
[ WINNER ]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

97/100
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Samsung Exynos 2500
Samsung

Samsung Exynos 2500

78/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
DeviceBenchmark Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 78.0 Good
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 82.0 Very Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
Graphics test 20 FPS 17 FPS
Section 1 52 FPS 43 FPS
Section 2 46 FPS 35 FPS
Section 3 40 FPS 29 FPS
Stability 67% 54%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Yes
NPU theoretical performance — 59 TOPS

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
CPU 1112833 771016
GPU 1494722 723824
Memory 442350 356421
Total score 3950082 2289696
UX 900177 438435

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
Architecture 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.74 GHz – Cortex-A7255x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7252x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
Cores 8 10
Frequency 4610 MHz 3300 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB 128 KB
L2 cache 12 MB 3 MB
L3 cache 12 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 5.4
Download speed Up to 12500 Mbps Up to 12100 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X85 Exynos 5400
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Upload speed Up to 3700 Mbps Up to 3670 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 7

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
API Vulkan Vulkan
Asset compression 421.8 MB/sec 390.2 MB/sec
Background blur 40.7 images/sec 36.4 images/sec
Edge detection 1 Gpixels/sec 0.7 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 24.9 images/sec 15.1 images/sec
Feature matching 0.36 Gpixels/sec 0.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.04 Gpixels/sec 1.6 Gpixels/sec
HDR 308.4 Mpixels/sec 309 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 238 pages/sec 179.4 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.72 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 330.6 images/sec 247.5 images/sec
PDF Renderer 286.6 Mpixels/sec 218.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4390.2 FPS 3446.8 FPS
Photo processing 98.7 images/sec 89.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.1 Mpixels/sec 12.7 Mpixels/sec
Samples 79 tests Less than 3
Stereo matching 115.4 Gpixels/sec 82.2 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
DirectX version 12.1 12.1
FLOPS 3686.4 Gigaflops 4091.9 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1200 MHz 999 MHz
OpenCL version 3.0 3.0
Pipelines 3 8
Shading units 512 128
Total shaders 1536 1024
Vulkan version 1.4 1.4

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
Announced September 2025 June 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8850-AC S5E9955
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site Samsung Exynos 2500 official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 84.8 Gb/s 76.8 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 5300 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 320MP
Max display resolution 3840 x 2540 3840 x 2160
Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 UFS 4.0
Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
Data manipulation score 15949 11954
Phones tested 13 models Less than 3
Photo editing score 40273 32035
Video editing score 8052 8133
Web score 16855 15720
Writing score 26073 22532

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-08-19->2295031556Leon AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-21(Ilya) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-24(q_l8) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-24->Ang3L4D AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(Edwin3q) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(Hüseyn Alizade) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(erosado-pr) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(freqr) AnTuTu —
📘 2025-10-06(Fer2813) — AnTuTu
📘 2025-11-10(Letuchu) — AnTuTu
📘 2025-11-25(EverViolet) — AnTuTu
📘 2025-11-26->everviolet12 — GeekBench GPU
📘 2025-12-19(Yell) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-01-01(Koss) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-05-16->INFC — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Samsung Exynos 2500
1.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro Plus 4716234 —
10.Honor Magic 8 4037547 —
2.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro 4678468 —
3.Vivo iQOO 15 Ultra 4602290 —
4.Vivo X300 Ultra 4247433 —
5.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro Plus 4244509 —
6.Oppo Find X9 Ultra 4231988 —
7.Honor Robot Phone 4166339 —
8.Honor Magic V6 4166339 —
9.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro 4117238 —
Phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 AnTuTu v11 —
1.Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 — 2289696
Phones with Exynos 2500 — AnTuTu v11

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