Samsung has revealed the Exynos 1580 chipset. The mid-range SoC (System on a Chip) packs eight CPU cores, reaching a peak performance of 2.9GHz.
Samsung Exynos 1580 specifications and features
Samsung’s Exynos chipsets aren’t as powerful or efficient as the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets. Concerningly, the Exynos 2500 series chipsets are trailing the Snapdragon 8 Elite.
The mid-range Exynos chipsets from Samsung are, however, a different story. The Exynos 1480 was a well-balanced chipset. Samsung has now quietly introduced the Exynos 1580. Hopefully, this mid-range SoC will be embedded in several Samsung smartphones.
The Exynos 1580 is reportedly a major upgrade over the Exynos 1480. The South Korean tech giant is manufacturing the latest chipset on its third-generation 4nm EUV FinFET process.
Samsung has embedded the new ARMv9 CPU cores and doubled the GPU performance. Specifically speaking, the Exynos 1580 features a 1+3+4 CPU cluster design. There’s a single prime Cortex-A720 core clocked at 2.9GHz, which is coupled with three big A720 cores running at 2.6GHz. Lastly, there are four efficiency A520 cores clocked at 1.95GHz.
Which Samsung smartphone will pack the latest mid-range chipset?
Samsung appears to have seriously upgraded the GPU inside its mid-range chipsets. The GPU inside the Exynos 1580 is based on AMD’s RDNA3 architecture. It features two Work Group Processors and an enhanced GL2 cache.
Samsung claims the peak GPU performance of the Exynos 1580 SoC is up by 37%. The GPU performance of the chipset at the same power level as the Exynos 1480, is up by 20%.
The Exynos 1580 also packs powerful NPU (Neural Processing Units) cores. The NPU inside the chipset delivers 14.7 TOPS of performance. The new NPU has an increased cache capacity of 2MB.
The latest mid-range chipset from Samsung supports 5G (both sub-6GHz and mmWave), Wi-Fi 6E (ax), and Bluetooth 5.4. LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage can work with this chipset. The support for optics and display remains the same as the Exynos 1480.
The Samsung Exynos 1580 would most likely be embedded inside the upcoming Samsung Galaxy A56. However, given the improved performance, Samsung may also pack this SoC inside some mid-range Galaxy tablets as well.
