Samsung's next-gen mobile processor for mid-rangers, the Exynos 1680, has made its appearance on Geekbench. This gives us a glimpse into the power the chipset is going to pack. More precisely, its GPU improvements.
The Exynos 1680 processor has been listed on Geekbench 6.0 with the S5E8865 model number. The listing sheds light on the GPU performance of the upcoming SoC along with its CPU architecture.
From the looks of it, the SoC is set to bring noticeable GPU improvements over its predecessor. It has managed to score 6,330 points in the OpenCL test. For context, the Exynos 1580 managed to achieve only 3,095 points in the same test.
This indicates a 204.52% GPU performance jump from the 2024 Exynos chipset. The close to 2x performance boost can be attributed to the Samsung Xclipse 550 GPU. It features two compute units clocked at 1,306 MHz.
And it's not the GPU alone that is getting beefed up. The chipset appears to bear an 8-core CPU with 3x efficiency cores @ 1.70 GHz, 4x prime cores @ 1.95 GHz and 1x performance core @ 2.00 GHz. At first glance, the chipset might appear toned down, considering the performance and efficiency cores were clocked higher with the Exynos 1580 (2.9 GHz and 2.6 GHz, respectively).
However, the real MVP will apparently arrive in the form of AMD’s RDNA 3.5 microarchitecture node that the SoC is said to be based on. It is the same process node that Samsung is using for its top-of-the line Exynos 2500 10-core SoC.
If true, we can expect the Exynos 1680 to be based on a 3 nm process node and offer a significant jump in FPS games compared to the Exynos 1580. As for the device that will feature this SoC, the most likely contender is the Galaxy A57, which is set to debut by March 2026. It could launch with One UI 8 based on Android 16 and feature 8 GB of RAM. However, we will know for sure once the Exynos 1680 chipset debuts and the device launching with the SoC is subsequently announced.
