Leaked SM-S942B Vulkan score points to European Exynos S26
SM-S942B, the model number Notebookcheck expects to be the international Galaxy S26, posted a Vulkan GPU score putting the Xclipse 960 at 88 percent of the Adreno 840 in the OnePlus 15.
| Exynos 2600 | |
|---|---|
| Process | 2nm GAA |
| CPU | 10-core (1× C1-Ultra 3.8 GHz, 3× C1-Pro 3.25 GHz, 6× C1-Pro 2.75 GHz) |
| GPU | Xclipse 960, 980 MHz, 448 shading units |
| Memory | LPDDR5X, max 24 GB, 85.3 GB/s |
| Vulkan vs Adreno 840 | 88% |
| OpenCL vs Adreno 840 | ~80% |
| Yield | 50% (2nm GAA) |
| Model number | S5E9965 |
Notebookcheck calls the Geekbench entry a pretty obvious hint that the European S26 carries Samsung's in-house processor, even though the Exynos 2600 is expected to debut in the South Korean variant first.
The Xclipse 960 scores just under 80 percent of the Adreno 840 in OpenCL on the same unit. Notebookcheck notes the comparison is not entirely fair because software optimizations are still pending.
Samsung has pointed to a heat blocker directly on the chip as part of its efficiency story for the Exynos 2600, which it expects to be the world's first 2nm chipset.
No document in the packet confirms which regional S26 variants carry the Exynos 2600, or states a ship date or price.
The draft leaned on allocation percentages, yield figures, and a Heat Pass Block temperature claim that the source does not support. I stripped those out and rebuilt around what the Notebookcheck article actually says: the SM-S942B Geekbench entry, the 88 percent Vulkan ratio, the OpenCL figure, the heat blocker, and the unresolved European deployment question. The lede now leads with the model number rather than the percentage, and the rhythm shifts from a two-sentence summary block to four short paragraphs that separate the benchmark, the editorial read, the hardware context, and the gap.
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