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Exynos 2500 vs Dimensity 9400

Exynos 2500
VS
Dimensity 9400
Exynos 2500
Dimensity 9400

We compared the 10-core Samsung Exynos 2500 (Samsung Xclipse 950) with the older 8-core MediaTek Dimensity 9400 (Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v11
  5. GeekBench 6
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (12)

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Samsung Exynos 2500
  • Has 2 more cores
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size than the Dimensity 9400
Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400
  • Higher GPU frequency (~61%)
  • Performs 21% better in floating-point computations
  • Shows better (up to 23%) AnTuTu 11 score – 2825K vs 2289K
  • 10% higher CPU clock speed (3620 vs 3300 MHz)
  • Supports 11% higher memory bandwidth (85.3 against 76.8 GB/s)

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Exynos 2500
vs
Dimensity 9400

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Exynos 2500
2289696
Dimensity 9400 +23%
2825187
CPU 771016 900074
GPU 723824 972096
Memory 356421 345330
UX 438435 607687
Total score 2289696 2825187
Samples [8 tests] [72 tests]
Submit your AnTuTu result

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Exynos 2500
2285
Dimensity 9400 +22%
2797
Multi-Core Score
Exynos 2500
7874
Dimensity 9400 +11%
8767
Asset compression 390.2 MB/sec 344.4 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 179.4 pages/sec 251 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 218.9 Mpixels/sec 258.4 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 247.5 images/sec 209.7 images/sec
HDR 309 Mpixels/sec 267.4 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 36.4 images/sec 30.9 images/sec
Photo processing 89.9 images/sec 84.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 12.7 Mpixels/sec 9.3 Mpixels/sec
Samples Less than 3 22 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
Exynos 2500
18873
Dimensity 9400 +14%
21574
Background blur 35.4 images/sec 43 images/sec
Face detection 15.1 images/sec 19.8 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.45 Gpixels/sec 0.78 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.7 Gpixels/sec 0.63 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.6 Gpixels/sec 1.71 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.23 Gpixels/sec 0.29 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 82.2 Gpixels/sec 73.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 3446.8 FPS 3456.3 FPS
API Vulkan OpenCL
Samples 2 tests 17 tests

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Exynos 2500
2231
Dimensity 9400 +6%
2371
Score 2231 2371
Stability 54% 61%
Graphics test 17 FPS 18 FPS
3DMark Solar Bay
Exynos 2500
9397
Dimensity 9400 +14%
10747
Score 9397 10747
Graphics test 36 FPS 41 FPS
Section 1 43 FPS 46 FPS
Section 2 35 FPS 42 FPS
Section 3 29 FPS 36 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Score - 6272
Graphics test - 37 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Exynos 2500 +7%
16035
Dimensity 9400
15020
Web score 15720 14420
Video editing score 8133 6211
Data manipulation score 11954 16192
Photo editing score 32035 30985
Writing score 22532 19569
Phones tested Less than 3 6 models

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Samsung Exynos 2500
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-16 -> INFCAnTuTu 112220403
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-01 (Koss)AnTuTu 112437711
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-19 (Yell)AnTuTu 112112394
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-26 -> everviolet12Geekbench 6 GPU18873
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-26 -> everviolet12AnTuTu 112496663
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MediaTek Dimensity 9400
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-04 (Samsepi0l)AnTuTu 123000192
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-04 (Samsepi0l)AnTuTu 123000192
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-30 -> BronelliantAnTuTu 122833803
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-25 (AZA_KEN)AnTuTu 112765026
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-12 (Oussama barhmate)AnTuTu 123135000
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Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 2500 and Dimensity 9400

CPU

Architecture 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X925
2x 2.74 GHz – Cortex-A725
5x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520		 1x 3.62 GHz – Cortex-X925
3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
Cores 10 8
Frequency 3300 MHz 3620 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 128 KB 128 KB
L2 cache 3 MB 2 MB
L3 cache 16 MB 12 MB
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Samsung Xclipse 950 Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
Architecture RDNA 3 Valhall 5th gen
GPU frequency 999 MHz 1612 MHz
Pipelines 8 12
Shading units 128 128
Total shaders 1024 1536
FLOPS 4091.9 Gigaflops 4952.1 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.4 1.3
OpenCL version 3.0 3.0
DirectX version 12.1 12.1

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes MediaTek NPU 890
NPU theoretical performance 59 TOPS 50 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 5333 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 76.8 Gb/s 85.3 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 24 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 4.0 UFS 4.0
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 320MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9		 - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV		 - AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3

Connectivity

Modem Exynos 5400 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 12100 Mbps Up to 7300 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3670 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 7 7
Bluetooth 5.4 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced June 2025 October 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number S5E9955 MT6991, MT6991Z/CZA, MT6991W/CZA
Official page Samsung Exynos 2500 official site MediaTek Dimensity 9400 official site
Successor - - MediaTek Dimensity 9500

Cast your vote

So, which SoC would you choose?
421 (49.3%)
433 (50.7%)
Total votes: 854

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Comments

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hhh June 25, 2025 at 03:42 PM
Exynos will humiliate MTD in terms of GPU
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??? June 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Humiliate? Worse: - GPU frequency - Pipelines - Total shaders - FLOPS - AnTuTu GPU scores Blood eyes went to the Earth's core.
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hhh July 4, 2025 at 05:31 AM
???, Yes numbers are better but actual performance will be better on Exynos gpu
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No it's not. August 20, 2025 at 09:26 AM
hhh, Lol in actual use the Exynos 2500 is barely better than last gen 8 Gen3 and 9300.
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Zae1l May 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I hope Samsung is able to produce the appropriate amount of this processor and I hope that the company will put it inside the S24FE, ZFLIP FE, Z FOLD FE or even at least the S24 FE because frankly the initial leaks are promising and I believe that Samsung will have a great opportunity to bring back the spirit of Exynos again because this processor will literally perform great in power consumption thanks to 3nm and temperature thanks to the cores with low frequencies and the performance will also be great thanks to the 10 cores so I believe **and this is just a belief** that if this processor is launched as it is scheduled to be launched it will be one of the best processors this year and it is true that it will not be the best processor but it will excel in many aspects
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Samuel28 September 3, 2025 at 08:19 AM
Because samsung needs to catch up in processors too because their exynos was already falling off over the decades of performance unlike in its prime for its time that most exynos is more powerful than snapdragon back then
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Hector December 9, 2024 at 04:54 PM
I can't trust Exynos because it doesn't perform stable in heavy games. But Dimension 9400 is much more optimal
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Techpro February 9, 2025 at 04:09 PM
No Exynos is pretty good Exynos 2400 was very power efficient and generate less heat compared to previous generations of exynos and this new Exynos 2500 is also based on 3nm for cpu and RDNA 3.5 for gpu which means it will be way more power efficient than Exynos 2400 and will generate less heat also which is great considering Exynos 2400 was also great chip than previous generations they are improving fast so no worry
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Sina September 1, 2024 at 04:49 PM
This Exynos is gonna use way less power than MediaTek and Snapdragon with that cores Good Job πŸ‘
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akp831 June 26, 2025 at 05:56 AM
XRING O1: Am I a joke to you?
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Hijibij July 9, 2025 at 02:49 PM
akp831, Did you make joke ?...
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Samuel28 September 3, 2025 at 08:20 AM
akp831, They often overheat more than exynos could do due to of the use of less cores for efficient cores
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