Performance benchmark of Galaxy A57's Exynos 1680 chip is here

In May, we learned that Samsung is developing a new mid-range chipset from mobile devices,, the Exynos 1680, a successor to the Exynos 1580, which the brand may use in its upcoming mid-range phones and tablets, such as the Galaxy A57. Well, today, we have the first benchmark of the SoC, which reveals its CPU configuration, GPU model, and sheds light on its performance.

On Geekbench, a listing of a Samsung smartphone with a chipset carrying model number S5E8865 has been spotted. According to the previous report, this is the model number of the Exynos 1680 (the model number of the Exynos 1580 is S5E8855). The benchmark reveals that Exynos 1680 brings an all-new CPU configuration and 2x powerful GPU than the Exynos 1580.

According to the listing, the Exynos 1680 has an 8-core CPU with one (most likely a prime) CPU core running at 2GHz, four high-performance cores running at 1.95GHz, and three power-efficiency cores running at 1.70GHz. In comparison, the Exynos 1580 has one prime CPU core running at 2.9GHz, three high-performance cores running at 2.6GHz, and three power-efficiency cores running at 1.9GHz.

As for GPU, the listing reveals that the Exynos 1680 has the Samsung Xclipse 550 GPU with 2 compute units running at a 1,306MHz. With that, it has scored 6,330 points in the OpenCL test. In comparison, the Exynos 1580 with its Xclipse 540 GPU scores around 6,865 points in the same test.

At this point, the Exynos 1680 looks like a downgrade compared to Exynos 1580. However, the chip is still in the testing phase, which means that the brand may improve its performance by the it launches the SoC.

According to the previous report, the Exynos 1680’s GPU is based on AMD’s RDNA 3.5 microarchitecture, which is the same technology used for the brand’s latest flagship chipset, the Exynos 2500. Hopefully, we will get to know more details about the SoC, including its fabrication process, soon.