For a bit, the Samsung Galaxy S27 Pro sounded like a “mini Ultra” with leaks about a Privacy Display feature for its 6.47” screen. We were reminded that this wasn’t the case when it came out that the Pro and Ultra will use different telephoto cameras (but they will have the same main, ultra-wide and selfie cameras). And now here’s another reminder.
The Samsung Galaxy S27 Pro will use an Exynos 2700 chipset everywhere outside of North America, reports Korea’s Money Today. China traditionally gets Snapdragon too, but that wasn’t mentioned in the report. The S27 Ultra will use the new Snapdragon Elite chip globally, of course. So, no, the S27 Pro will not be a “mini Ultra”, no matter how much you wish it were.
As for the Exynos 2700, it will be fabbed on Samsung’s SF2P node, which offers a 26% power reduction and a 15% boost to clock speeds compared to Exynos 2600’s SF2 node. Also, Samsung will reportedly move away from the traditional stacked design (with the DRAM on top of the chipset) and use a Side-by-Side layout.
The Exynos 2600 uses a heat pass block to improve cooling
It’s what it sounds like – the DRAM and chipset are placed next to each other and are connected by a silicon interposer. This will help with heat transfer as normally heat from the chipset has to pass through the DRAM chip before making it to the cooling block. Early benchmarks didn’t wow us, but note that that particular test sample ran at very low clock speeds – the top core was only doing 2.88GHz compared to 3.8GHz for the Exynos 2600 prime core and a reported max clock speed of 4.2GHz for the Exynos 2700 (this is supposed to be an ARM C2 Ultra core).
It was never in doubt, but the vanilla Samsung Galaxy S27 and the Galaxy S27+ are expected to use the Exynos 2700 in most markets too, again with the exception of North America (and possibly China).