Last week we saw a Geekbench run from the Galaxy A55’s SoC, but it wasn’t on the Galaxy A55 – it was using some kind of test platform. Today, that change, as a prototype of the A55, has made it to Geekbench itself, and it confirms the interesting GPU choice made by Samsung.
The A55’s chipset is widely believed to be marketed as the Exynos 1480, of course, following in the footsteps of the 1380 seen in the A54 and the 1280 in the A53. But unlike them, the new one won’t use a Mali GPU, opting instead for an AMD RDNA2-based Xclipse 530 GPU, as confirmed by today’s benchmark runs.
It could also theoretically have the ability to offer retracing in games. That doesn’t mean it will, so don’t get your hopes up too high. Still, it could be a beefier GPU than what the A5x line achieved, which is a good step in the right direction. On the CPU side, there are improvements over the Exynos 1380, but they’re not surprising – a single-core score of 1,127 and a multi-core score of 2,090 were managed by the A55, while the A54 scores around 1,108 and 2,797, respectively.
So if you’re hoping that the A55 will finally be a giant leap in CPU performance in Samsung’s best-selling line of smartphones, that hope needs to be put on hold for at least another year.
The prototype running on Geekbench had 8GB of RAM on board, which is the most you can get with the A54. According to previous rumours, the Galaxy A55 will feature a 6.5-inch FHD+ 120 Hz OLED screen, a 50 MP main camera and support for 25W wired charging (there will be no charger in the box, of course).
