Credit: Samsung Semiconductor
- Samsung has announced the Exynos 1580 processor for mid-range phones.
- The new chip brings a significantly more powerful CPU and even faster AMD graphics.
- We’re expecting the Exynos 1580 to appear inside the Galaxy A56 next year.
Samsung’s mid-tier Exynos processors have never really been class-leading propositions. Fortunately, it looks like the company’s latest chip could finally deliver a major performance upgrade for mid-range phones.
Samsung Semiconductor quietly listed the 4nm Exynos 1580 on its website, and this looks like a massive step forward for the company’s budget chips. Easily the biggest upgrade is the tri-cluster CPU, consisting of one Cortex-A720 core clocked at 2.9GHz, three Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 2.6GHz, and four little Cortex-A520 cores at 1.95GHz. That’s a major upgrade over the Exynos 1480’s aging CPU, which consists of four Cortex-A78 cores and four Cortex-A55 cores.