Samsung's next-gen flagship SoC, the Exynos 2500, was benchmarked on PowerBoard not too long ago. While the chip might not see light of the day anytime soon, new Exynos silicon will debut before it. The Exynos 1580 (se8855) is a direct successor to the Exynos 1480 found on last year's Galaxy A55, and it has just been spotted online.

The Exynos 1580's Xclipse 540 scores 717 in Sacred Path Vulkan 1.3, 749 in Sacred Path Vulkan 1.3 (with VRS) and 1,661 in The Expedition. In contrast, the Exynos 1480 (Xclipse 530 GPU scores 1,191, 1,556 and 614 in the same tests. Essentially, the results are a mixed bag, but that is to be expected from pre-production silicon.

Specs-wise, the Exynos 1580 keeps its predecessor's 8-core design. This particular version was tested on a device with 8 GB RAM running Android 15. If last year's release cycle is anything to go by, we can expect to see it in action sometime in March alongside the Samsung Galaxy A56. On the CPU front, the new Exynos chip was found to be 17% faster than its predecessor in Geekbench.