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TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra makes use of Samsung's most powerful processor ever, with faster AI, better visuals, and smoother, more responsive gameplay. And with a huge screen, ProScaler and mobile Digital Natural Image engine (mDNIe) technology, enhanced cooling and a longer-than-ever battery life compared to Galaxy S25 Ultra, your games will look better for as long as you want to play.
Mobile gaming continues to get more popular and more powerful every year, and Samsung has been at the forefront of this revolution for many years. Now, with the new Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, gaming on your phone just took another huge leap forward, with AI optimisations and a powerful new processor helping you run your favourite games faster, for longer.
Galaxy AI helps make Galaxy S26 Ultra Samsung's most powerful phone for gaming
At the heart of the Galaxy S26 Ultra is Samsung's most powerful processor ever on Galaxy, built to get the most out of Galaxy AI. Even if you're regularly swapping between your favorite games, the customized image enhancer will sharpen and smooth visuals across apps in real-time. The advanced NPU offers 39% faster AI performance than the Galaxy S25 Ultra1, while improved graphics performance and faster processing speeds are all-important for gamers because they ensure your games will look better, run faster, and could give you that all-important edge.
Galaxy AI helps your games look better than ever
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor helps push games further than ever on the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. Beautifully-rendered light and shadow across Vulkan-optimized titles combines with ray-tracing for more realistic colours, reflections, and 3D imaging, all while Snapdragon helps push faster performance, longer sessions, and console-quality gaming experiences from your phone.
And with the additional help of Galaxy AI, your games can look even better than they did before. Thanks to Galaxy's mDNIe, colors will appear more varied, more consistent, and more vibrant, even at the blistering pace of an online game, all to offer yet another boost in graphical performance. And AI offers another helping hand thanks to ProScaler, which uses AI upscaling to boost image quality and sharpness in real-time, while limiting the processing hit you'd take from rendering your games at higher resolutions.
That means that no matter what your favourite game might look like, it'll look better than ever on the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. If you're a fan of fast-paced competitive shooters, faster processing speeds will help give you the edge in a tense gunfight. And if you prefer an expansive RPG, ProScaler and mDNIe will make sure its worlds look beautiful wherever you explore.
Galaxy S26 Ultra is built for long-term gaming sessions, thanks to Galaxy AI's adaptive tools
All that extra power is no good if you're not able to make the most of it, but the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is perfectly adapted to help you keep playing your favorite games with as few disruptions as possible. At the top of the list is the AI-powered Adaptive Battery system; already boasting Samsung's longest-ever battery life with up to 31 hours of playback time2, this system uses Galaxy AI to learn how you use apps, making background power more efficient, limiting power to the apps you don't use so much, and helping you get the most out of your most-played games. And with power saving and battery protection folded into Adaptive Battery features, your phone will learn your usage pattern over time to help you maximize its power output.
That couples up with Galaxy's fastest-ever charging, which can take you up to 75% charge in just 30 minutes3. And an enhanced cooling system that spreads heat further and faster than before, which is imporhardwaretant for helping max out that battery life because of the long-term impact that excess heat can have on the health of your phone's power source . A new, larger Vapor Chamber design helps keep your phone cooler while you play, stream, or switch seamlessly between apps with Galaxy AI, working alongside the Galaxy S26 Ultra's tailored thermal interface material to improve heat dissipation by up to 21% compared to Galaxy S25 Ultra.
So even when you're playing graphically intensive games for long periods of time, your Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will be ready to go. If you're stuck on the commute, desperate to hit your daily quests in your favorite RPG but with no charging port in reach, you can rely on the enhanced battery life to make sure you hit your goals. Or if you're planning a quiet weekend on the sofa settling into your favorite cozy game, you don't need to worry about overheating even while plugged in, all thanks to the enhanced cooling system.
Elsewhere, you'll benefit from the phone's design too. Even lighter and thinner than the Galaxy S25 Ultra despite its larger 6.9-inch screen, the Galaxy S26 Ultra is easier to keep in your hands during those long sessions. And with plenty of different storage options for all kinds of users, gamers will likely want to settle on the 1TB of storage with its 16GB of memory ensuring the fastest-possible speeds.
Across the board, Galaxy AI is ready to help you get console-level performance in your pocket. Powering faster, better-optimized games thanks to tools like ProScaler and mDNIe, it'll also help you play for longer with Adaptive Battery and a new and largest cooling system helping your phone go further.
If you're ready to push your mobile gaming experience to the next level, Galaxy AI is ready for you. To find out more, and find the right phone for you, head to the Samsung website and discover Galaxy AI and the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra.
1. AP performance improvements shown compared to Galaxy S25 Ultra. Actual performance will depend on user environment, conditions and pre-installed software and applications.
2. Typical value tested under third party laboratory conditions. Rated minimum capacity of the Galaxy S26 Ultra is 4,855mAh.
3. Super Fast Charging 3.0 available via a 60W power adapter, sold separately
