While Samsung hasn’t offered a high-end chip for its Galaxy S23 series this year, things are different for the other segments. In a press release, the South Korean manufacturer unveils the Exynos 1380, its new mid-range model to be found in the future Galaxy A54.
The Exynos 1380 is the direct successor to the Exynos 1280 that powered last year’s Galaxy A53. A mid-range 5G chip consisting of 4 cores at 2.4 GHz (Cortex-A78) and 4 more at 2 GHz (Cortex-A55). The Mali G68 MP5 chip takes care of the graphics part and is said to offer significantly better performance than last year’s model. Samsung announces that it has done a lot of work on artificial intelligence since its chip is capable of supporting up to 4.9 billion operations per second.
Photography also seems to have been an important axis of development. The Exynos 1380 can support up to 200 megapixel optics on a single module. When 3 modules are integrated into the smartphone, it can manage up to 16 megapixels per module. Videos can be recorded up to 4K at 30 fps. Finally, on the screen side, Samsung announces support for Full HD + definition with a refresh rate of 140 Hz.
Storage is UFS 3.1 and RAM is based on LPDDR4x/5 technology. With a 5G cellular network, Samsung says its chip can achieve download speeds of 3.67 GB/s and 1.38 GB/s upload.
A processor that doesn’t get to reshuffle the mid-range cards, but merely acts as a small update to last year’s processor, the Exynos 1280.