Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra could outpace the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max
Samsung’s next flagship phone could be faster than the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max and the rest of the 2027 Android flagship crowd.
Samsung phones have slipped into a familiar pattern when it comes to performance. Whenever the South Korean manufacturer uses Qualcomm’s off-the-shelf processors in its flagship phones – often in a slightly faster flavour – they tend to be among the most capable phones on the market. Take the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, for instance.
When it reverts to its own Exynos chips – often in non-Ultra models for global markets – it tends to slip behind on performance and efficiency.
That could all be set to change with the Samsung Galaxy S27 range, if reports from South Korea are to be believed.
Luke Baker
Exynos 2700 CPU benchmarks
Chosun has issued a report claiming that Samsung’s forthcoming Exynos 2700 chip – which may well power the entire Samsung Galaxy S27 series – is outperforming the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max with its Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.
We should note that this is all based on “internal performance evaluations”, so a healthy pinch of salt is required. But the report points to a Geekbench 6.5 CPU multi-core score of around 13,000 points compared to 11,000 in the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 crowd.
That’s an 18% improvement from the Samsung chip. It achieved a similar 15% advantage in the more up-to-date Geekbench 7 test.
The report points out that the advantage is even bigger when compared to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite 6th Gen chip, which was recently introduced as a step-down option. We’re looking at a 44% to 36% improvement from the Exynos 2700.
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Exynos 2700 could be a gaming king
That’s all fine and dandy, but gamers will want to know about the relative GPU performance – an area in which Qualcomm’s chips have often been dominant.
According to the report: “The maximum processing performance of high-end games using the latest graphics technology was about 20% higher than Qualcomm’s top-tier product”. Meanwhile, high-end 3D games have been shown to perform around 5% better.
Recent rumours have suggested that Samsung is deliberating over whether to go all-in on the Exynos 2700 in 2027, which would include the Galaxy S27 Ultra.
If performance is really this good, it might not be such a bad move, though naturally we’ll need to see how it performs in the real world.
There’s also the small matter of energy efficiency to consider. Samsung phones traditionally use relatively conservative battery capacities, so the level of power consumption will be an important consideration.
