✔️ 2022-04-19 23:29:00 – Paris/France.
More flagship features are coming to affordable phones
Samsung has been making Exynos chipsets for years, some successful and some less so. It toyed with making custom ARM CPU cores for about four years, but it ditched that fantasy in 2020 with the release of the flagship Exynos 980. There were no mid-range Exynos parts during of the last two years, leaving cheaper Samsung phones. without a modern internal option. That changed a few weeks ago with the announcement of the Exynos 1280, but it's only now that Samsung has explained what makes this mobile chipset special.
The Exynos 1280 debuted in the Galaxy A33 5G and A53 5G, the latter of which we have already reviewed. The 1280 moves to a 5nm process with two high-speed Cortex A78 processors and six efficient A55 cores, but we knew that when testing the A53. The latest update from Samsung's semiconductor group focuses on the experiences you can enable with the new Exynos, some of which were previously limited to its flagship chips. For example, the chip can do 120Hz at 1080p resolution, which is competitive with mid-range Qualcomm chips. And yes, it does support 5G as seen on the A53, and Samsung is really pleased with its "5G for all" angle. However, 5G isn't exactly a flagship feature anymore with options like the Dimensity 700 alone. At least Exynos is catching up.
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Samsung also promises smoother gaming performance with the Valhall-based ARM Mali-G68 GPU. Optimization of this architecture is still limited, but it should have better battery life than previous designs thanks to a technology called Fused Multiply-Add (FMA), which can perform multiple floating-point operations in a single step. There is an onboard AI accelerator for local ML processing. It handles up to 4,3 trillion operations per second (TOPS), which is in the same neighborhood as the Hexagon DSP of Qualcomm's 750G chipset.
The A53 only has a 64MP main camera, but the Exynos 1280 supports up to a 108MP sensor. It's the kind of hardware we're used to seeing on Samsung's flagship phones, but the prices for those components are already dropping. It can also handle a quad-camera setup, which the A53 and A33 technically have, although one of them is an almost useless depth sensor. The 1280 can also do 4K video recording at 30fps, but that's no surprise after seeing the A53.
There have only been a few Exynos 1280 phones so far, but we'll no doubt see Samsung using this hardware heavily as 2022 continues. See below for the (mostly) full specs as published by Samsung.
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