Exynos 2600 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8500
The Exynos 2600 leads the MediaTek Dimensity 8500 by 22% on AnTuTu v11 (29.29 Lakhs vs 24.08 Lakhs) and is 65% faster in Geekbench single-core and 51% in multi-core. Where the MediaTek Dimensity 8500 does better: 14% faster RAM (4800 MHz vs 4200 MHz).
Exynos 2600 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8500: key differences
Where the Exynos 2600 leads
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12% higher peak CPU clock
3.8 GHz vs 3.4 GHz
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Newer Arm instruction set
ARMv9.3 vs ARMv9.2-A
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2.7x larger L3 cache
16 MB vs 6 MB
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Smaller process node
2 nm vs 4nm
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2.6x more GPU compute power
7024.6 GFLOPS vs 2662.4 GFLOPS
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Newer storage standard
UFS 4.1 vs UFS 4.0
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22% higher AnTuTu v11 score
29.29 Lakhs vs 24.08 Lakhs
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51% faster in Geekbench multi-core
10,192 vs 6,762
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65% faster in Geekbench single-core
2,843 vs 1,728
Where the MediaTek Dimensity 8500 leads
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14% faster RAM
4800 MHz vs 4200 MHz
AnTuTu and Geekbench scores
AnTuTu v11 Total
+22% fasterGeekbench Single-Core
+65% fasterGeekbench Multi-Core
+51% fasterFull specifications
Green marks the better value wherever one can be measured.
Overview
- Launch Date
- December 2025
- January 2026
- Chipset Class
- Flagship
- Upper Mid-range
- Manufacturer
- Samsung
- MediaTek
- Model Number
- Exynos 2600
- MT6899
CPU
- Total Cores
- 10
- 8
- Core Configuration
- 1x 3.8 GHz - Cortex-C1 Ultra
3x 3.25 GHz - Cortex-C1 Pro
6x 2.75 GHz - Cortex-C1 Pro - 1x 3.40 GHz - Cortex-A725
3x 3.20 GHz - Cortex-A725
4x 2.20 GHz - Cortex-A725 - Max Frequency
- 3.8 GHz
- 3400 MHz
- Instruction Set
- ARMv9.3
- ARMv9.2-A
- Process Node
- 2 nm
- 4nm
- Manufacturing
- Samsung
- TSMC
- L3 Cache
- 16 MB
- 6 MB
GPU
- GPU Name
- Samsung Xclipse 960
- Arm Mali-G720 MC8
- GPU Frequency
- 985 MHz
- 1300 MHz
- Shading Units
- 128
- 128
- FLOPS
- 7024.6 GFLOPS
- 2662.4 GFLOPS
- Ray Tracing Support
- Yes
- Yes
- NPU
- 32K MAC NPU
- MediaTek NPU 880
- API Support
- Vulkan 1.4, OpenCL 3.0, OpenGL ES 3.2
- OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3
Memory & Storage
- RAM Type
- LPDDR5X
- LPDDR5X
- RAM Frequency
- 4200 MHz
- 4800 MHz
- Memory Bus
- 4x 16-bit
- 4x 16-bit
- Max Bandwidth
- 67.2 GB/s
- 76.8 GB/s
- Max RAM Size
- 24 GB
- 24 GB
- Storage Type
- UFS 4.1
- UFS 4.0
Camera & Display
- Camera Support
- 320 MP
- 320MP
- Video Capture
- 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- 4K at 60FPS
- Max Display Resolution
- 4K at 120Hz
- WQHD+
- Video Playback
- 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- 4K at 60FPS
- Video Codecs
- H.264, HEVC, H.265, AV1, VP9
- H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
- Audio Codecs
- AAC LC, FLAC ,HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, MP3
- AAC LC, FLAC, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, MP3
Connectivity
- Modem
- Exynos 5410
- -
- Network Support
- 5G
- 5G
- Download Speed
- 14.79 Gbps
- 5.17 Gbps
- Upload Speed
- 4.90 Gbps
- 1.25 Gbps
- Wi-Fi
- 7
- 6E
- Bluetooth
- 6.1
- 6.0
- Navigation
- GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS
- NavIC, GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Links
Benchmark results
Every AnTuTu and Geekbench result for both chips. Green marks the higher score.
AnTuTu v11
- Total
- 29,29,281
- 24,07,614
- CPU
- 9,56,605
- 7,09,591
- GPU
- 10,97,739
- 7,62,021
- Memory
- 4,24,610
- 4,09,017
- UX
- 4,50,327
- 5,26,985
Geekbench
- Single-Core
- 2,843
- 1,728
- Multi-Core
- 10,192
- 6,762
Overall Score
Each category scored out of 100.
Total Score
+11 pointsCPU Score
+17 pointsGPU Score
+15 pointsMemory Score
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