PulseStacks, March 28th - Samsung recently launched the Galaxy A55 smartphone featuring the Exynos 1480 processor, but at that time, the name of this chipset was not officially announced. Now, Samsung has finally revealed the mystery and officially released this new Exynos chipset tailored for the mid-range market.
Compared to last year's Exynos 1380 built on a 5nm process, the Exynos 1480 utilizes Samsung's in-house 4nm (4LPP+) process technology. The new chip features four ARM Cortex-A78 CPU cores clocked at 2.75GHz, along with four Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2GHz. Samsung claims that the Exynos 1480 offers a 22% improvement in energy efficiency over its predecessor and is compatible with LPDDR4x/LPDDR5 memory and UFS 3.1 storage.
PulseStacks notes that the standout feature of the Exynos 1480 is its integration of the industry's first GPU based on the AMD RDNA architecture, known as the Xclipse 530 GPU. Previous reports suggested that this GPU was based on the RDNA 2 architecture, but Samsung's official website claims that it utilizes the latest RDNA architecture, RDNA 3, although specific details are currently unclear.
Samsung claims that the GPU performance of the Exynos 1480 has increased by 53% compared to the Exynos 1380. It also supports advanced gaming features such as Variable Rate Shading (VRS) and Super Resolution (frame rate boosting), promising a significantly enhanced gaming experience compared to previous mid-range Exynos chips.
The image signal processor (ISP) of the Exynos 1480 can support camera sensors of up to 200 million pixels, capable of simultaneously processing image data from two 32-megapixel sensors (at 30fps) with zero shutter lag, or handling image data from a single 64-megapixel sensor (with zero shutter lag and HDR). In contrast to the Exynos 1380, which can only record 4K 30fps video, the Exynos 1480 can record 4K 60fps video.
Thanks to the built-in Neural Processing Unit (NPU), the terminal AI performance of the Exynos 1480 has increased by 4 times compared to the Exynos 1380. Additionally, the Exynos 1480 integrates a 5G modem supporting mmWave and sub-6GHz networks, with theoretical maximum download speeds of up to 5.1Gbps, double that of the Exynos 1380, and maximum upload speeds of up to 1.28Gbps.
Other connectivity features of the Exynos 1480 include GNSS (BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS, and GPS), Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, NFC, and USB Type-C interface.
