Samsung’s Galaxy S flagship smartphones have always brought a significant amount of performance to the Android world, although the community has always questioned the mixing of Samsung’s Exynos chipsets and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets throughout the range, and have been wondering which way Samsung will decide for the S25 family, including the highly anticipated Galaxy S25 Ultra.
That concern may not be needed for the S25 family due to launch early next year. The Snapdragon chipset has been favored by Samsung’s community for many years. It’s also a productive partnership with Qualcomm, who provided an uprated Snapdragon chipset to Samsung for last year’s Galaxy S24 Ultra.
Noted industry watcher @IceUniverse is reporting that next year’s Galaxy S25 handsets will use the Snapdragon 8 Elite across the full range; “Samsung Galaxy S25 series uses the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. Not the Exynos 2500 and Dimensity 9400.”
A New Snapdragon For The Galaxy S25 Ultra
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite this week, promising the world’s fastest mobile CPU, with several partners called out in the presentation, including Samsung.
“This platform debuts industry leading technologies such as the second generation custom-built Qualcomm Oryon CPU, Qualcomm Adreno GPU and enhanced Qualcomm Hexagon NPU, all of which deliver game changing performance improvements.”
In previous years, Samsung’s community has been disappointed to see the Snapdragon and Exynos chipsets running in the same handsets depending on which territory they were purchased in. This highlighted the clear differences between the two; Snapdragon chipsets offer more power while the Exynos chipsets offer better battery life. The online consensus favours having the Snapdragon given the increased performance it offers in gaming and a better handling of multitasking.
Samsung has unified the chipsets of the Galaxy S handsets in some years—2023’s Galaxy S23 family being the last time this occured—and if this proves to be the case with the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+ and Galaxy S25 Ultra then Samsung’s decision to go with Qualcomm for all of its smartphones will be enthusiastically welcomed by its supporters.
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