The performance of the Samsung Galaxy S26 can discriminate: in which countries it will work better and worse

If you followed the history of Samsung phones for some time, the debate about Snapdragon and Exynos will be familiar. Now, thanks to the report, it seems that we are going to return to this discussion for the Samsung Galaxy S26, and everything will be complicated.

Over the past decade, Samsung used a hardware mixture to serve its phones. The most familiar and the most popular is Qualcomm Snapdragon.

In fact, over the past two years, Samsung has used a slightly accelerated version of the latest Snapdragon equipment, in a special publication for Galaxy. This first appeared in the Galaxy S23. This year I also saw Snapdragon Worldwide that Samsung repeated for the Galaxy S25.

But although in 2025 Samsung fans could breathe a sigh of relief, in 2026 it is expected that there is a collective moan. This is due to the fact that Exynos returns to the Galaxy S line, according to the reliable filter in X.

There is also no doubt: “Exynos 2600 has definitely returned and will be used in S26”, strengthening earlier rumors that Samsung was excited by Exynos 2600. So all this means?

Exynos is Samsung’s own equipment that comes from its own funds. The company used this equipment periodically from Galaxy S II in 2011. In general, there is a regional separation between those who receive that the equipment, since the USA, Canada and China (and some other regions) receive Snapdragon, while most of the rest of the world, such as Europe, receives Exynos.

The advantage for Samsung is probably the lowest cost than buying Qualcomm Samsung always fought for independence in this way, with Tizen, originally represented as a competitor of Android, a separate Galaxy store, etc.

The disadvantage is that the hardware of Exynos is considered inferior, which has a negative marketing value, simultaneously launching endless comparisons and debate about which version is better.

In the past, it was emphasized that some Exynos modems were not compatible with cell standards, for example, MMWAVE, so it was necessary to use another equipment. But this is already in the past.

For those in the USA Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 On your phone, and it will be the end of this.

Nevertheless, they say that Exynos 2600 is a 2 -nm product of the Samsung process (the current elite Snapdragon 8 is 3 nm). Make a chip -transistors less, as a rule, leads to an increase in efficiency and increasing productivity for the size that Samsung is striving for.

But every year we have debates about Exynos in Galaxy S, and this year it does not seem different. However, we will have to wait until January 2026 to find out.