Samsung’s Exynos 2600 scores 8,321 in Basemark ray tracing benchmark

Aytun Çelebi · February 18, 2026, 14:44 ·1 min read

Samsung’s Exynos 2600 SoC is set to power base model Galaxy S26 units in certain regions. The chip’s Xclipse 960 GPU, which utilizes AMD’s RDNA 4 Ray Tracing technology, scored 8,321 points in the Basemark In Vitro 1.0 Ray Tracing test. This result is approximately 8% higher than the Adreno 840 in the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and 17% higher than the Mali-G1-Ultra in the MediaTek Dimensity 9500. Despite these graphics gains, recent reports indicate the Exynos 2600 trails the latest Snapdragon in single-core CPU tests.

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Aytun Çelebi

Starting with coding on Commodore 64 in elementary school moving to web programming in his teenage years, Aytun has been around technology for over 30 years, and he has been a tech journalist for over 20 years now. He worked in many major Turkish outlets (newspapers, magazines, TV channels and websites) and managed some. Besides journalism, he worked as a copywriter and PR manager (for Lenovo, HP and many international brands ) in agencies. He founded his agency, Linkmedya in 2019 to execute his way of producing content. He is recently interested in AI, automation and MarTech.

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