Another Geekbench listing, another Galaxy S26 FE. This one matters a bit more than the last though. It’s carrying the model number SM-S741B, and that B suffix is the one Samsung slaps on its international units, so this is the version most markets outside Korea and the US will actually get. The phone first showed up on the benchmark site in April as a prototype. Second sighting now.
Specs are no surprise. Exynos 2500 inside, listed under the chipset codename S5E9955, 8GB of RAM, Android 17 with One UI 9 over the top. Same setup the Korean SM-S741N and the US SM-S741U variants ran when they got benchmarked earlier this month. Which tells you Samsung’s sticking with Exynos across every region this round, instead of splitting off Snapdragon for some markets the way it does on the flagships.
The scores are where it gets less flattering. The Korean unit managed 2,255 single-core and 7,450 multi-core. The US one did better, 2,426 and 8,004. Trouble is, that multi-core figure is roughly what a decent 2023 flagship would post, and that’s the running complaint with the FE line. It always inherits the last cycle’s ceiling rather than this one’s. The actual Galaxy S26 series runs the newer Exynos 2600 or the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with 12GB of memory, so nobody’s pretending the FE sits in the same row.
The chip on its own isn’t bad. Exynos 2500 is a 3nm ten-core part, built on Samsung’s Gate-All-Around process, and it’s a real step up from the Exynos 2400 in the current S25 FE. Benchmark numbers also wander depending on background load and test conditions, so the gap between the Korean and US runs is just noise, not two different chips.
Design we already got a look at. A Wireless Power Consortium listing earlier this month showed the thing properly, and it borrows the wider S26 family look, triple camera on the back, except the module sits higher and tighter into the top-left corner than it does on the flagships. There’s also word that Samsung’s getting the OLED panel from BOE this time rather than its own display arm, same thing it pulled on the budget A57, almost certainly to keep the price in check while parts get more expensive.
Launch should land around September.
