Samsung already at work on the Galaxy S27 chip, first sightings on Geekbench

A few months after the commercial debut of the Galaxy S26 series, attention is already shifting to the next generation.

With a lead of a little less than a year ahead of the presumed market launch window, Exynos 2700, the processor that will power the future Samsung Galaxy S27, has begun to leave clear traces on the web.

These early appearances offer a preview of the technical specifications that the South Korean giant’s semiconductor division is working on.

Exynos 2700, the technical specifications surfaced by Geekbench

The renowned benchmark portal Geekbench has recently recorded the results of a Samsung engineering prototype, bearing the Samsung label, based on the Android operating system. The device tested is powered by a processor uniquely identified by the code S5E9975, an alphanumeric code that can be directly associated with the much-anticipated Exynos 2700.

The information extracted automatically from the platform also confirms the use of 12 GB of RAM and the integration of the GPU Xclipse 970.

Moving to the benchmark scores, the test bench yielded interesting, albeit provisional, results. The hardware component scored 2.603 points in the single-core scenario and 10.350 points in multi-core.

Adding to these data is an earlier detection, which credited the chip with a score above the 15.000 points threshold in the graphics performance test on a basis of OpenCL.

Compared to the metrics guaranteed by today's hardware, there is a slight dip. The current Exynos 2600 sits at about 3,250 points in single-core and approaches 11,000 points in multi-core. Such a discrepancy is absolutely normal: the architecture is currently in an early experimental phase, where the necessary software optimizations are still lacking.

Nevertheless, it cannot be completely ruled out that the loading of results could derive from external tampering.

Independence and thermal management

The leaked details also shed light on Samsung's internal choices. It seems Samsung has decided to design the Exynos 2700's graphics component entirely in-house, ending the long-standing close collaboration in previous years with AMD's Radeon team.

This decision highlights the drive to centralize hardware development to have more granular control over the final product.

Alongside this separation, there are reports of the possible implementation of significantly improved heat-dissipation mechanisms, designed to ensure superior thermal efficiency under heavy workloads.

Considering the embryonic state of the work, every figure should be interpreted with extreme caution while awaiting firmer confirmations arising from mature prototypes later in the year.