Samsung’s long-running battle to make its in-house Exynos chips truly competitive may finally be turning a corner.

A new leak suggests the upcoming Exynos 2700, expected to power the Galaxy S27 series in 2027, could deliver major gains in performance, efficiency and thermal management.

According to information shared by tipster Kaulenda on X, the Exynos will be built on Samsung Foundry’s second-generation 2nm process, known as SF2P.

This refined Gate-All-Around (GAA) manufacturing node is said to bring around a 12% performance uplift and a 25% reduction in power consumption compared to the SF2-based Exynos 2600, which is due to debut in the Galaxy S26.

The new process could also allow Samsung to push clock speeds higher, with the prime CPU core reportedly reaching a stable 4.2GHz.

Architecturally, the chip is expected to adopt ARM’s next-generation Cortex-C2 cores, which could deliver around a 35% increase in instructions per clock.

If those numbers hold, early estimates point to Geekbench 6 scores of roughly 4,800 in single-core and 15,000 in multi-core – a significant jump over current Exynos parts.

One of the most interesting changes is in cooling. Samsung is reportedly moving to an FOWLP-SbS (Side-by-Side) packaging design, which places the application processor and DRAM next to each other under a unified copper ‘Heat Path Block’.

Unlike traditional vertical stacking, this layout increases the surface area in contact with the heat spreader, potentially helping to solve the overheating and throttling issues that have haunted previous Exynos generations.

Graphics performance is also set for a boost. The next-gen AMD-based Xclipse GPU will reportedly be paired with LPDDR6 memory and UFS 5.0 storage, enabling data transfer speeds up to 80–100 per cent faster than before. The result could be a real-world GPU performance gain of 30 to 40%, with LPDDR6 supporting speeds of up to 14.4Gbps.

Of course, this is all still based on leaks and Samsung hasn’t confirmed anything. But if even part of this pans out, the Exynos 2700 could finally give Samsung a genuine alternative to Qualcomm’s top-end Snapdragon chips.