New rumors arrive about the range Samsung Galaxy S26 which, as we discovered at the beginning of the month, could ultimately be made up of four models and not three as rumors have suggested so far.
New rumors suggest (or rather confirm) that in 2026 Samsung will re-propose something that we have already seen in the past, namely the duality of chips depending on the market for at least some of the devices that will make up the range. Let’s find out all the details.
Samsung Galaxy S26: four models but not all with the same SoC
Excluding the Pro model which will replace the basic model, Samsung’s Galaxy S26 range will offer updated versions of the same interpreters available on the 2025 range.
With the addition of the Plus model, back in the game after a last minute change of strategy implemented by the South Korean giant, the range will therefore be composed of Samsung Galaxy S26 Pro, Galaxy S26+, Galaxy S26 Edge and Galaxy S26 Ultra.
According to what was reported by the Sammobile portal, in most markets, with the exception of the Chinese and US ones, the most compact model (i.e. S26 Pro) will certainly be pushed by the Soc Exynos 2600.
The Plus model should suffer the same fate: for it too, under the hood, there should be this new Exynos chip. The other two models in the range (Edge and Ultra), as well as the Pro and Plus models sold in the United States and China, should instead rely on the SoC Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (probably for Galaxy) by Qualcomm.
In our area (and not only) chip dualism returns as in 2024
On par with what was proposed in 2024, when the Samsung Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ sold outside China, Canada and the United States could count on the SoC Exynos 2400 instead of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxywhich at the same time was the beating heart of the Galaxy S24 Ultra on a global level, in 2026 Samsung will therefore return to offering chip dualism on its flagships.
As far as historically SoCs Exynos are not able to perform like him Snapdragon of Qualcomm, there are many question marks about the performance of the next chip Exynos 2600.
According to rumors, in fact, the chip will be made by Samsung Foundry with production process a 2 nma detail which, at least on paper, should guarantee the chip greater energy efficiency. Furthermore, on the specific side, the chip will be able to count on one Ten core CPU (with ARM C1 core) and on Xclipse 950 GPUyet another evolution of the graphics card based on AMD’s RDNA architecture.
The first benchmarks leaked at the end of August suggest that this chip, whose mass production began last month, may even outperform the Snapdragon 8 Elite (then last year’s Qualcomm flagship) but it’s too early to say whether it can also keep up with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 or of Dimensity 9500 by MediaTek, the two SoCs that will power most of the Android flagships of the 2025-26 generation.
