Samsung’s next mid-range chipset, the Exynos 1580, was first revealed a while back. Samsung Galaxy A56 results are now available from one of the key devices where the new chip will be used.
As expected, the phone’s model number is SM-A566B and the chipset is S5E8855.
There are eight CPU cores in the Exynos 1580: 1 prime core running at 2.91GHz, 3 mid-cores running at 2.60GHz, and 4 small cores running at 1.95GHz. Samsung has rebalanced things since the Exynos 1480, which had four A78 cores running at 2.75GHz and four A55 cores running at 2.0GHz.
An upcoming chip will have a higher clock speed for the prime core, resulting in higher single-core performance. The core may even be different from the three mid-cores.
The GPU is the Xclipse 540, code-named “Angle” by Geekbench. A previous generation chip, the Xclipse 530 (“Titan”), was used last year based on AMD’s RDNA 2. As the other x40 generation GPU, the Xclipse 940 inside the Exynos 2400, uses the new RDNA 3 architecture, there’s a good chance that the new chip will also.
Samsung Galaxy A56 was configured with 8GB of RAM, but that doesn’t mean much – the A55 had 6GB, 8GB, and even 12GB of RAM. Android 15 was running on the phone, unlike Android 14 on say, the Galaxy S24 FE (with a lower-performing Exynos chip).
Also, it’s too early to look at the results – the chip has already improved since the first benchmark was spotted, and Samsung still has time to unveil the Galaxy A56. It looks like mid-March will be the time for the A55, A54 and A53 to be released.
