Exynos 9825 vs Exynos 2500

We compared the 8-core Samsung Exynos 9825 (Mali-G76 MP12) 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 9.4x better in floating-point computations
  • Shows significantly better (up to 2.9x) AnTuTu 11 score – 2289K vs 798K
  • Has a smaller size transistor (3 versus 7 nm)
  • Supports 130% higher memory bandwidth (76.8 against 33.4 GB/s)
  • Has 2 more cores
  • Higher GPU frequency (~32%)
  • 21% higher CPU clock speed (3300 vs 2730 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
798922
Exynos 2500 +187%
2289696
CPU 296289 771016
GPU 141109 723824
Memory 170792 356421
UX 190732 438435
Total score 798922 2289696
Samples [12 tests] [8 tests]

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Exynos 2500 +121%
2285
Multi-Core Score
Exynos 2500 +211%
7874
Asset compression 112.1 MB/sec 390.2 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 72.6 pages/sec 179.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 77 Mpixels/sec 218.9 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 46.9 images/sec 247.5 images/sec
HDR 84.4 Mpixels/sec 309 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 7.61 images/sec 36.4 images/sec
Photo processing 26.1 images/sec 89.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 2.96 Mpixels/sec 12.7 Mpixels/sec
Samples 6 tests Less than 3
Compute Score (GPU)
Exynos 2500 +262%
18873
Background blur 7.65 images/sec 35.4 images/sec
Face detection 4.79 images/sec 15.1 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.26 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.43 Gpixels/sec 0.7 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.25 Gpixels/sec 1.6 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.07 Gpixels/sec 0.23 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 15.5 Gpixels/sec 82.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 533.9 FPS 3446.8 FPS
API Vulkan Vulkan
Samples 4 tests 2 tests

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Exynos 2500 +468%
2231
Score 393 2231
Stability 96% 54%
Graphics test 3 FPS 17 FPS
3DMark Solar Bay
Score - 9397
Graphics test - 36 FPS
Section 1 - 43 FPS
Section 2 - 35 FPS
Section 3 - 29 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Score 1003 -
Stability 95% -
Graphics test 6 FPS -

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
16035
Web score 8308 15720
Video editing score 5802 8133
Data manipulation score 7232 11954
Photo editing score 19062 32035
Writing score 10895 22532
Phones tested 2 models Less than 3

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Samsung Exynos 9825
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-28 (Tomio.tomato)AnTuTu 11820039
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-17 -> j7primeciadamAnTuTu 11819454
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-25 (M1nn44a)AnTuTu 11722666
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-22 (Wolf_Tech 🐺)AnTuTu 11824382
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-14 (Random person)AnTuTu 11806002
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 9825 and Exynos 2500

CPU

Architecture 2x 2.73 GHz – M4
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A75
4x 1.95 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 2730 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 7 nanometers 3 nanometers
Transistor count 8.5 billion -
Manufacturing Samsung Samsung

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G76 MP12 Samsung Xclipse 950
Architecture Bifrost 3rd gen RDNA 3
GPU frequency 754 MHz 999 MHz
Pipelines 12 8
Shading units 24 128
Total shaders 288 1024
FLOPS 434.3 Gigaflops 4091.9 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 1.4
OpenCL version 2.0 3.0
DirectX version - 12.1

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Yes
NPU theoretical performance 1.86 TOPS 59 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 33.4 Gb/s 76.8 Gb/s
Max size 12 GB 24 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 UFS 4.0
Max display resolution 3840 x 2400 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 16MP 1x 320MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 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 Exynos 5100 Exynos 5400
4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 2000 Mbps Up to 12100 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 316 Mbps Up to 3670 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 7
Bluetooth 5.0 5.4
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Announced August 2019 June 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number S5E9825 S5E9955
Official page Samsung Exynos 9825 official site Samsung Exynos 2500 official site
Successor - Samsung Exynos 2500 -

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