A new leak of the Samsung Galaxy S21 claims that it will not see many upgrades except for the chip. However, these new benchmarks indicate that it will be much improved.

The new details come from a series of tweets by the esteemed Twitter leaker Ice Universe, who is frequently on the money with Samsung leaks.

The Exynos 2100 chip scored 693,600 points in the AnTuTu benchmark app based on IU screenshots, compared to 648,871 for Qualcomm's rival chip, the Snapdragon 875. This is noteworthy because this is the first time an Exynos chip has been shown to perform better than an equivalent Snapdragon chip.

Samsung sells its flagship phones with Snapdragon chips in the U.S., but in the U.K. and elsewhere it uses its own Exynos chips instead. Usually this means that U.S. Samsung users are getting a better deal on smartphone power, but perhaps this year the situation will be reversed.

With the exception of those made by Samsung and Huawei, essentially all premium Android phones use Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 series chipset, and this year's is the Snapdragon 865. This means that most of Samsung's rivals are likely to be a bit more capable.

Interestingly, the Galaxy S21 will not be the first phone with an Exynos 2100 chip. That honor will be given to Vivo's phone, IU said. This is also unprecedented, as Samsung has never sold chipsets to other companies; Vivo is not a very prominent smartphone maker, especially in the US and UK, but it may be a sign of Samsung's growing influence in the broader cell phone market.

Unfortunately, while it is great news that Samsung's chipset will offer a significant increase in processing power, it may be the only real change we see between this year's Galaxy S20 series.

IU's tweet claims that there will be no improvement in charging technology to 65W, as Samsung wants to continue supporting the current 45W standard. Rumors of a selfie camera under the display have recently been poured cold water on. We have heard similarly disappointing news about the phone's battery options, which appear to be the same size as the S20 series.

The camera, however, could see some improvement. Samsung is already working on a 180MP camera, not content with the huge 108MP sensor; it may be this camera that will be the new main camera on the back of the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But otherwise, we'll have to see the successors to the Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy Z Fold 2 for Samsung's true cutting-edge technology.

The new Galaxy S series comes out around February each year. Given that Samsung has skipped from the Galaxy S10 to the Galaxy S20, we have no idea which number Samsung will use. At this point, the S21 seems most likely, but it is also called the Galaxy S30.