Exynos 9810 vs Exynos 2500

We compared the 8-core Samsung Exynos 9810 (Mali-G72 MP18) with the newer 10-core Exynos 2500 (Samsung Xclipse 950) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

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
  • Performs 16.6x better in floating-point computations
  • Shows significantly better (up to 3.9x) AnTuTu 11 score – 2289K vs 594K
  • Has a smaller size transistor (3 versus 10 nm)
  • Supports 168% higher memory bandwidth (76.8 against 28.7 GB/s)
  • Higher GPU frequency (~75%)
  • Has 2 more cores
  • 14% higher CPU clock speed (3300 vs 2900 MHz)
  • Better instruction set architecture

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
594285
Exynos 2500 +285%
2289696
CPU 257526 771016
GPU 87627 723824
Memory 115805 356421
UX 133327 438435
Total score 594285 2289696
Samples [43 tests] [8 tests]

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Exynos 2500 +207%
2285
Multi-Core Score
Exynos 2500 +323%
7874
Asset compression 123.7 MB/sec 390.2 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 73.4 pages/sec 179.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 84.8 Mpixels/sec 218.9 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 18.8 images/sec 247.5 images/sec
HDR 82.6 Mpixels/sec 309 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 7.01 images/sec 36.4 images/sec
Photo processing 23.3 images/sec 89.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 3.31 Mpixels/sec 12.7 Mpixels/sec
Samples 14 tests Less than 3
Compute Score (GPU)
Exynos 2500 +293%
18873
Background blur 8.29 images/sec 35.4 images/sec
Face detection 4.41 images/sec 15.1 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.25 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.26 Gpixels/sec 0.7 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.21 Gpixels/sec 1.6 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.06 Gpixels/sec 0.23 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 16.8 Gpixels/sec 82.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 655.7 FPS 3446.8 FPS
API OpenCL Vulkan
Samples 10 tests 2 tests

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Score - 2231
Stability - 54%
Graphics test - 17 FPS
3DMark Solar Bay
Score - 9397
Graphics test - 36 FPS
Section 1 - 43 FPS
Section 2 - 35 FPS
Section 3 - 29 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Exynos 2500 +152%
16035
Web score 5601 15720
Video editing score 5488 8133
Data manipulation score 5650 11954
Photo editing score 9525 32035
Writing score 6250 22532
Phones tested 3 models Less than 3

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Samsung Exynos 9810
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-05 (Ibzz)AnTuTu 12612773
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-24 (s9)AnTuTu 12744869
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-10 -> skaeleAnTuTu 11635840
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-24 (Alex)Geekbench 6 GPU4587
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-24 (Alex)Geekbench 6 CPU495 / 1924
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

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 9810 and Exynos 2500

CPU

Architecture 4x 2.9 GHz – Exynos M3
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A55
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X925
2x 2.74 GHz – Cortex-A725
5x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
Cores 8 10
Frequency 2900 MHz 3300 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache - 128 KB
L2 cache 2 MB 3 MB
L3 cache - 16 MB
Process 10 nanometers 3 nanometers
Transistor count 5.3 billion -
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 5 W -
Manufacturing Samsung Samsung

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G72 MP18 Samsung Xclipse 950
Architecture Bifrost 2nd gen RDNA 3
GPU frequency 572 MHz 999 MHz
Pipelines 18 8
Shading units 12 128
Total shaders 216 1024
FLOPS 247.1 Gigaflops 4091.9 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1 1.4
OpenCL version 2.0 3.0
DirectX version - 12.1

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Yes
NPU theoretical performance - 59 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 1800 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 2x 32 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 28.7 Gb/s 76.8 Gb/s
Max size 6 GB 24 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 4.0
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 28MP, 2x 16MP 1x 320MP
Video capture 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Shannon 360 Exynos 5400
4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Download speed Up to 1200 Mbps Up to 12100 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 200 Mbps Up to 3670 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 7
Bluetooth 5.0 5.4
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Announced January 2018 June 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number S5E9810 S5E9955
Official page Samsung Exynos 9810 official site Samsung Exynos 2500 official site
Successor - Samsung Exynos 2500 -

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