Last week we saw a Geekbench run by the Galaxy A55 SoC, but it wasn’t In the Galaxy A55: used some sort of test platform. Today the situation changes, as a prototype of the A55 itself has also arrived on Geekbench, and this confirms the interesting choice of GPU made by Samsung.
The A55’s chipset is believed to be marketed as the Exynos 1480, following, of course, in the footsteps of the 1380 seen in the A54 and the 1280 in the A53. Unlike these, however, the new one won’t use a Mali GPU, instead opting for an AMD RDNA2-based Xclipse 530 GPU, which was confirmed by today’s benchmark.
This could theoretically also have the ability to offer raytracing in games. That doesn’t mean it will, however, so don’t get your hopes up too high. However, this is likely to be a beefier GPU than we’ve gotten from the A5x line so far, which is a good step in the right direction. On the CPU side, improvements over the Exynos 1380 exist, but they aren’t surprising: a single-core score of 1,127 and a multi-core score of 2,090 is what the A55 got, while the A54 got a score of approximately 1.108. and 2,797, respectively.
So if you were hoping that the A55 would finally represent a huge leap forward for CPU performance in Samsung’s best-selling smartphone line, that hope needs to be put off for at least another year.
The prototype that Geekbench ran on had 8GB of RAM on board, which was the maximum amount you could get the A54 with. According to previous leaks, the Galaxy A55 will have a 6.5-inch 120Hz FHD+ OLED screen, a 50MP main camera, and support for 25W wired charging (no charger in the box, of course).
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