Exynos 1580: 4 nm SoC official with Cortex-A720 CPU cores and new Xclipse GPU

Samsung's new mid-range SoC, the Exynos 1580, was spotted online on two occasions—once on Geekbench and again on PowerBoard. It succeeds the Exynos 1480 and offers a 17% performance uplift on the CPU side and a similar figure for the GPU. Samsung has officially shown it off, and it could power the Galaxy A56 in the coming weeks.

The Exynos 1580 comes with an 8-core CPU with 1x Cortex-A720 (2.9 GHz), 3x Cortex-A720 (2.6 GHz) and 4x Cortex-A520 (1.95 GHz) cores. This is a big step-up from the Cortex-A78 cluster used on its last-gen counterpart. On the GPU side, Samsung uses a RDNA-based Xclipse 540 with 2 WGPs (4 CUs). The company claims this results in up to a 37% performance increase while consuming 20% less power.

Other notable Exynos 1580 specs include support for UFS 3.1 storage, LPDDR5 RAM (throughput unknown), a 1080p 144 Hz display, 4K 60 FPS video recording, 200 MP camera sensor (single), Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.4. The included Exynos 5G modem supports sub-6 GHz bands, but not mmWave. Samsung doesn't explicitly mention which node the chip is made on, but "third-generation 4 mm EUV" hints it could be Samsung 4LPP, the same one used by the Exynos 2400 and Google Tensor G4.