Exynos 1580 unveiled with Cortex-A720 cores, double the GPU {hardware}

The Exynos 1480 was a cool mid-range chip – actually, its sustained efficiency was nice. However it was solely ever utilized in one cellphone, Samsung’s personal Galaxy A55, which is a little bit of a disgrace. Right here’s what comes subsequent – the Exynos 1580, doubtless for use within the upcoming Galaxy A56.

This chip is a serious improve over its predecessor – it’s constructed on a brand new node, with ARMv9 CPU cores and double the GPU {hardware}. Particularly, the chip is fabbed on Samsung’s third-generation 4nm EUV FinFET course of.

The CPU of the Exynos 1580 strikes to a three-cluster design with one prime Cortex-A720 core (2.9GHz), three huge A720 cores (2.6GHz) and 4 A520 (1.95GHz). This alone represents a serious efficiency increase in comparison with the 1480, which used ARMv8 cores.

The GPU is predicated on AMD’s RDNA 3 structure, now that includes two Work Group Processors – up from only one on the 1480 (the Exynos 2400 has six). Samsung says that most efficiency is up by 37% whereas efficiency on the similar energy stage because the 1480 is up by 20%. This GPU additionally will increase the GL2 cache.

The NPU delivers 14.7 TOPS of efficiency. The 1380 had simply 4.9 TOPS, whereas the 1480 went as much as… Samsung doesn’t say. Nonetheless, each the 1480 and 1580 NPUs are described as “6K MAC”, so presumably there’s no distinction. The spec sheet does say the brand new NPU has an elevated cache capability of 2MB, however the results of that may solely be recognized after benchmarks.

Samsung Exynos 1580 chipset

The brand new chip helps LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. Connectivity is generally the identical with 5G (each sub-6GHz and mmWave), Wi-Fi 6E (ax) and Bluetooth 5.4. There isn’t any AV1 decoder.

Show and digital camera assist are the identical as earlier than, as much as 1080p+ at 144Hz and single 200MP cameras (or twin 32+32MP @ 30fps) with 4K video at 60fps. A 200MP digital camera on the Galaxy A56 appears unlikely, however Samsung does say that the brand new chip has improved picture processing in comparison with its predecessor.

As we have now alluded above, the Exynos 1580 is probably going for use in Samsung’s Galaxy A56, which is predicted to be unveiled early subsequent yr (nevertheless, we’re already seeing benchmarks from it). It is also featured in tablets, e.g. 2023’s Galaxy Tab S9 FE(+) used the Exynos 1380, however that’s only a guess at this level.

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