A new Samsung SoC, the Exynos 1580, has just been unveiled. However, it’s not as impressive as the Snapdragon solution unveiled recently. There wasn’t much fuss made about Samsung’s Exynos 1580, which is a mid-range chip.
There has never really been a class-leading Exynos processor from Samsung in the mid-tier segment. It looks like the company’s latest chip will finally boost midrange phones’ performance.
The Exynos 1580 is built on a 4nm EUV FinFET process. There is a Three-cluster CPU with 1 x Cortex-A720 core at 2.9GHz, 3 x A720 cores at 2.6GHz, and 4 x A520 cores at 1.95GHz. It comes with an AI engine with 6K MAC NPU. The chipset has LPDDR5 support & comes with an FHD+ display @144Hz.
In terms of the camera, the chip supports for 200MP camera and 4K 60fps video encoding/decoding. Lastly, the chip supports Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.4, & 5G.
AI, NPU & GPU:
Samsung says its NPU can perform up to 14.7 trillion operations per second with a 2MB memory capacity.
Samsung’s new Xclipse 540 GPU is perfect for gamers on mid-range phones. There is an additional WGP (Work Group Processor) for a total of two. As well as an increased GL2 cache and twice as much processing power for FMA/texture units.
Exynos 1580’s GPU benefits from these upgrades by 37% over its predecessor, with a 20% increase realized under the same power conditions.
Furthermore, the Exynos 1580 chip incorporates a motion refinement feature and a large Sum of Absolute Differences (SAD) that improve Temporal Noise Reduction (TNR). With the Exynos 1580, you should be able to record videos with less noise under low-light conditions and take photos with clearer edges in low-light settings.
If Samsung follows its usual launch schedule, the Exynos 1580 chip is likely to debut with the Galaxy A56 early next year.
