Last week, Samsung launched the Galaxy A15 and Galaxy A25. It has a couple more A-series phones in the pipeline, namely the Galaxy A35 and Galaxy A55. Leaks have already divulged a lot of information about the devices. They are expected to be powered by Samsung’s Exynos 1480 processor featuring a custom AMD GPU. A new benchmark listing has pretty much confirmed that, at least for the Galaxy A55.
Samsung will ship the Galaxy A55 with its in-house Exynos 1480 SoC
The folks over at MySmartPrice recently spotted an unannounced Samsung smartphone with the model number SM-A556B on the popular benchmarking site Geekbench. Based on previous leaks, it is none other than the Galaxy A55. The listing shows the device with an octa-core processor bearing the model number s5e8845, which is the Korean firm’s next-gen mid-range SoC, the Exynos 1480.
The Galaxy A55 scored 1,127 in single-core CPU tests and 3,090 in multi-core CPU tests on Geekbench v6. The scores are higher than what the Galaxy A54 achieved with its Exynos 1380 processor. A previous Geekbench v6 run for the upcoming Exynos chipset yielded even better scores—1,185 and 3,558, respectively. Samsung seems to have improved the CPU performance of its new processor.
Speaking of the CPU, the Exynos 1480 has four high-performance CPU cores clocked at 2.75GHz and four efficiency cores at 2.05GHz. Digging deeper into the new benchmark listing, the publication discovered that Samsung has paired the CPU with the Xclipse 530 GPU. It is the first mid-range custom GPU the Korean firm has developed in collaboration with AMD. The company already uses AMD-powered GPUs in flagship chipsets.
We can also see that the Galaxy A55 has 8GB of RAM and runs Android 14 out of the box. Samsung may also offer the phone in a 6GB RAM variant. Early evidence suggests the phone will deliver a better overall performance as compared to the current model, i.e. the Galaxy A54. The company could improve the chipset with further optimizations ahead of the phone’s launch.
The new A-series phones may launch in the first quarter of 2024
Samsung is gearing up to launch the Galaxy S24 series flagships in January 2024. The company would prefer to keep the device in the limelight for at least a couple of months. So it might not unveil the Galaxy A55 and Galaxy A35 before March next year. The 2023 models debuted in March too. We should get to learn more about the upcoming A-series Samsung smartphones in the coming months.
2023-12-20 15:06:35