GoKawiilTL;DR Samsung has unveiled the Exynos 1680 chipset, which powers the Galaxy A57 smartphone.
The new phone offers improved multi-core CPU performance, a more powerful GPU, and a more capable NPU.
Otherwise, the chipset seems like an iterative upgrade over the Exynos 1580 seen in the Galaxy A56.
Samsung has just announced the Galaxy A37 and Galaxy A57, with the latter powered by the in-house Exynos 1680 chipset. The company has also peeled the curtain back on this processor, giving us a good idea of what it’s capable of.
Samsung Semiconductor recently posted the Exynos 1680 product page, and a fleeting glance suggests that this is an iterative upgrade over the Exynos 1580 seen in the Galaxy A56. For one, it’s still built on a 4nm manufacturing process.
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We don’t see any massive changes on the CPU front, either, as Samsung sticks with the Cortex-A720 and Cortex-A520 cores. However, the Exynos 1680 adopts a 1+4+3 core layout in lieu of the Exynos 1580’s 1+3+4 layout. In other words, the new chip swaps one of the little cores for a medium core. That should enable better multi-core performance, which is always welcomed for tasks like video encoding and emulation.
Samsung’s new chip also offers an Xclipse 550 GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 3 technology. The company claims this GPU is 16% faster than the Xclipse 540 seen in the Exynos 1580, despite both GPUs featuring two work group processors. That’s good news, as colleague Ryan Haines wasn’t impressed with the Galaxy A56‘s performance during his time with the phone.
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