Samsung is working on its next mid-range 5G smartphone in the A series, the Samsung Galaxy A56 5G, which has appeared in the Geekebnch. It will be powered by the Exynos 1580 (s5e885) chip featuring the AMD Xclipse 540 GPU.
The device, identified by model number SM-A566B, was listed on Geekbench 6, showing a single-core score of 1353 and a multi-core score of 3832. These results surpass the Galaxy A55, which uses the Exynos 1480 SoC and scored 1127 in single-core and 3090 in multi-core tests.
The benchmarks also confirm the chip's tri-cluster architecture, with 1 prime core running at 2.91 GHz, the highest clock speed seen in a mid-range Exynos chip, alongside 3 performance cores at 2.6 GHz and 4 efficiency cores at 1.95 GHz. Previous rumours suggested the use of Cortex-A720 Prime and Performance cores, and Cortex-A520 efficiency cores, compared to the Cortex-A78 and Cortex-A55 cores in the Galaxy A55.
Additionally, the device will feature 8GB of RAM and run on Android 15. We still await the GPU benchmark scores to see how the Xclipse 540 compares to the Xclipse 530, as the former is expected to be based on RDNA 3 architecture, an upgrade from RDNA 2 in the predecessor.
Both the Galaxy A56 5G and Galaxy A36 5G are anticipated to launch in early 2025.
