Unsurprisingly, as the Exynos 2600 AP closes in on its release period, pre-launch samples have posted benchmark data. Last week, TechPowerUp covered this next-gen chip’s Geekbench 6 OpenCL score of 24,964 points—achieved by the onboard Xclipse 960 iGPU (aka “JUNO”). Earlier today, a slightly mysterious “Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Full Android on S5E9975 ERD” test device posted a not-so-impressive OpenCL score of 15618, in Geekbench 6.2.2 for Android AArch64. A Geekbench browser database entry details a 10-core processor candidate that packs a Samsung Xclipse 970 integrated graphics solution. Presumably, the numerical model climb—from 960 going up to 970—implies the “S5E9975 ERD” validation platform hosting an “Exynos 2700” mobile chipset. At first, Ice Universe—a self-described tech expert of global renown—was excited by the seemingly premature appearance of an “Exynos 2700” engineering sample. A lower than expected benchmark score was blamed on the test setup being an “ERD engineering board.”
Ice Universe posits that the “S5E9975 ERD” board: “was for scheduler and architecture validation, where cores from different generations and with different roles are deliberately mixed together to test energy-aware scheduling, power migration, and system stability under Android 16. Simply put, the benchmark score itself isn’t very meaningful, but it sends a clear signal that Exynos is undergoing a major shift in its CPU design strategy.” By swiftly introducing the follow-up to their Exynos 2600 application processor, Samsung could further prove the efficacy of its flagship fab’s 2 nm-class production channels.
