Seoul, April 17, 2026, 03:37 KST
Samsung’s next flagship may get a bigger speed lift from storage than from raw processor muscle. Reports published over the last day said the Galaxy S27 Ultra could be the first phone to ship with UFS 5.0 storage, while an Exynos 2700 result has now appeared on Geekbench, offering an early glimpse of Samsung’s 2027 mobile platform.
The timing matters because Samsung is trying to put more of its own silicon back into Galaxy phones just as component costs climb. The Galaxy S26 and S26+ use Exynos 2600 in some markets, while the S26 Ultra runs on Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy, and Reuters reported higher memory prices are already weighing on mobile margins.
UFS, short for Universal Flash Storage, is the standard that governs how fast a phone moves data in and out of flash memory. JEDEC published UFS 5.0 in February with support for up to about 10.8 GB/s; JEDEC Chairman Mian Quddus called it “a foundational technology for next-generation devices,” while Samsung NAND executive Jay Hyun said “storage performance and efficiency have become increasingly important” as more AI features move onto the device instead of the cloud. Business Wire
One of the new reports, citing tipster yeux1122, said Samsung is considering UFS 5.0 for at least some Galaxy S27 models, with the Ultra the likeliest first candidate. Wccftech said the talk centered less on bigger storage sizes than on faster app launches, file transfers and heavier AI tasks.
The benchmark itself was modest. The Geekbench listing showed 2,603 single-core and 10,350 multi-core, running Android 17 on a 10-core design, and Igor’sLab said the numbers looked more like “validation rather than a final performance picture” than a retail-ready chip. Geekbench
DigiTimes reported earlier this month that the leak offered one of the first real-world signals of how Samsung’s second-generation 2nm process may perform ahead of mass production. Samsung says the current Exynos 2600 is built on 2nm GAA, short for gate-all-around, and lifts CPU performance by up to 39% while more than doubling generative AI performance from its predecessor.
That lines up with Samsung’s stated direction. SamMobile, citing DealSite from a March press event in San Jose, quoted Moon Sung-hoon, vice president of hardware at Samsung’s MX business, saying: “We hope to equip all Galaxy lineups with our own application processor, the Exynos chip.” SamMobile
The broader competitive picture is clear enough. Any wider Exynos rollout would matter for Qualcomm, whose chips still power the S26 Ultra, and for TSMC, which analysts told Reuters remains ahead as Samsung’s contract chip manufacturing business continues to lose money even as 2nm interest builds. Reuters also reported in January that Qualcomm was in talks with Samsung over contract manufacturing at the 2nm node.
On storage, Samsung would not be moving alone. Kioxia said in February it had started shipping UFS 5.0 evaluation samples to customers developing compatible host systems, a sign the supply chain around the new standard is already taking shape.
But several things could still go another way. Early benchmark results often change sharply as clocks, thermals and power management are tuned, Reuters has reported that rising memory prices are pressuring Samsung’s phone margins, and the storage jump itself could still arrive first in one model or one region rather than across the whole line.
For now, the firmer read is not that Samsung has locked down the Galaxy S27, but that it has started showing pieces of the next fight early. Taken together, the storage talk, the benchmark entry and Samsung’s own push to widen Exynos use suggest the 2027 Galaxy story may hinge as much on responsiveness and AI loading times as on headline CPU numbers — an inference, not a confirmed product plan.
