Samsung's Galaxy A series has been the company’s best-seller this year. Samsung Galaxy A21s and A11 were the most shipped Korean phones last season, followed by the Samsung Galaxy A51. The A51’s popularity got it a 5G variant, and building on that success, the next generation is coming out of the gate with a 5G processor. Presumably titled Galaxy A52 5G, the mid-ranger has already been tested on Geekbench. Let’s take a quick look at it.
The Geekbench 5 scorecard for the phone doesn’t specify its name, but the model number is telling. Listed under ‘Samsung SM-A526GB’, the Samsung Galaxy A52 secures 298 points on single-core and 1001 points on its multi-core test. This year, the chipset onboard is not Exynos, but Qualcomm.
Geekbench doesn’t share the exact processor, but the CPU inside is split into eight cores — clocked at 1.8GHz. A quick inspection of the source code reveals the GPU details buried in the page. The mystery chipset Adreno 619 GPU, when paired with the CPU details, corresponds to Snapdragon 750G.
On paper, the performance presented as raw synthetic benchmarks points to a downgrade from the Samsung A51 (which managed a score of 335 and 1200 on single and multi-threaded tasks, respectively). But, these numbers could change since the phone used for the tests is very likely a pre-production unit.
Both the 4G and 5G Galaxy A51 variants had Exynos chipsets, which aren’t the most efficient or powerful on the market. It’s unclear if Samsung will limit the Snapdragon 750G to certain markets, but it’ll be the first Samsung phone to feature this processor nonetheless.
If the global variant ships with Qualcomm’s new chip, the Samsung Galaxy A51 5G gets an edge over its competition because only a handful of phones feature this affordable 5G processor right now. More to the point, even if Samsung ships the Exynos-powered version based on region, the new generation of these chipsets is supposed to go toe to toe against Qualcomm’s. We’ll keep you posted as the story develops.