Samsung Galaxy A34 5G: Geekbench appearances confirm performance upgrades and no Exynos chipset

The successor to the Galaxy A33 5G has surfaced on Geekbench, likely only a month or so before its official release. With marketing renders having leaked at the turn of the year, numerous Geekbench listings appear to confirm what chipset will be powering the Galaxy A34 5G, shown below by its model number, SM-A346B. As always, Geekbench does not refer to the device's SoC by name, with it listed as 'MT6877V' instead.

However, this model number correlates to the Dimensity 1080, a chipset that MediaTek debuted last autumn. To recap, the Dimensity 1080 has two ARM Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.6 GHz, plus six Cortex-A55 cores running at 2 GHz. The 6 nm SoC shares many components with the Dimensity 920, including its Mali-G68 MC4 GPU and LPDDR5 RAM. The Dimensity 1080 contains superior image processing than its predecessor though, as we discussed at the chipset's launch.