Galaxy A71 5G will use Samsung's Exynos 980 processor

Last updated: Feb 19th, 2020 at 12:57 UTC+01:00

The Galaxy A71 was among the first of Samsung'southward 2020 Galaxy A smartphones. Information technology was unveiled aslope the Galaxy A51 in Dec 2019. Nosotros reported back and then that Samsung besides has a 5G variant of the Galaxy A71 in evolution.

Since then, we've found out that the Galaxy A71 5G may also be released in markets outside the United States and China. We know for sure know what processor this device will be packing under the hood, it's going to be Samsung's Exynos 980. The LTE variant of the Galaxy A71 features the Snapdragon 730.

Galaxy A71 5G uses Samsung'due south first 5G integrated processor

Samsung made its Exynos 980 chip official vi months ago. Information technology'southward the visitor's first 5G integrated processor, in that the mobile processor has an integrated 5G modem. Previous solutions required a carve up 5G modem to be hooked up to the processor.

Based on Samsung's 8nm FinFET process engineering science, the Exynos 980 has an octacore processor with two two.2GHz Cortex-A77 cores and half-dozen 1.80GHz Cortex-A55 cores. The integrated 5G modem is capable of handling 5G to 2G networks while also supporting gigabit downlink speeds in 4G LTE. It supports speeds of upwards to 2.55Gbps in sub-vi-GHz 5G. The Exynos 980 besides has support for the new Wi-Fi 6 standard.

The Milky way A71 5G has made an appearance on Geekbench and at that place'southward no doubt left now that information technology's indeed going to use the Exynos 980. The fleck is paired with 8GB of RAM, the same as the LTE variant. This 5G integrated processor will permit Samsung to offer back up for the adjacent-gen network on more affordable devices. Since Samsung is all in for 5G this year, it won't be surprising if we see the Exynos 980 pop upwardly in several other mid-range models throughout the course of this year.

A teaser posted online recently suggested that the Galaxy A71 5G may be released in the nearly time to come, at least in the United States, so we may not accept to wait for too long earlier this device hits the market place.