Overview

• Samsung sold more than 20 million Galaxy S25 units by the end of June, driven by the exclusive “for Galaxy” Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC.
• The overclocked “for Galaxy” variant clocked at 4.47 GHz on main cores outsold every other Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered phone combined.
• Samsung abandoned its historical region-based chipset split by deploying the co-developed Snapdragon 8 Elite globally across the S25 lineup.
• Ongoing yield issues with the Exynos 2600 2 nm chipset have delayed its flagship deployment and are likely to keep the S26 series on Qualcomm silicon.
• A Geekbench leak for the Galaxy S26 Edge shows a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 scoring 3,393 single-core and 11,515 multi-core, indicating a strong multi-core advantage over Apple’s A-series.