A couple of weeks ago, Samsung’s Galaxy A56 made its first online appearance. It surfaced on the IMEI database with the model number SM-A566B, which is the global version. The device has now popped up on a benchmarking platform, confirming its ongoing development. Samsung should launch it sometime in March 2025 if not earlier.
Samsung continues to work on the Galaxy A56 alongside the S25 series
While all eyes are on the Galaxy S25 series, Samsung is simultaneously working on several other devices. The Galaxy A16 and A16 5G look set to debut later this month as the company’s next-gen budget offerings. The Galaxy A56 will arrive after the new flagships, bringing premium specs at an affordable price. It runs Samsung’s in-house Exynos 1580 processor.
In July, the chipset appeared on Geekbench to reveal an octa-core CPU with one prime core clocked at 2.91GHz. It is allegedly ARM’s latest, Cortex-A720 CPU core. The chip has three more Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 2.60GHz and four Cortex-A520 efficient cores at 1.95GHz. It bundles Samsung’s custom Xclipse 540 GPU, likely featuring AMD’s RDNA3 graphics architecture.
The benchmark run for the Exynos 1580 yielded scores of 1,046 in the single-core test and 3,678 in the multi-core test on Geekbench v5. It appears Samsung has substantially optimized the chip over the past three months. The Galaxy A56 returned a top single-core score of 1,353 and a top multi-core score of 3,847 on Geekbench v6. The test device featured 8GB of RAM.
Samsung tested the Galaxy A56 with Android 15 — it’s expected to ship all 2025 phones with Android 15 and One UI 7.0 or 7.1 onboard. The benchmark run doesn’t reveal anything else but it shows the company is hard at work on the new premium mid-range phone. Expect more leaks and rumors about it in the coming months. Time will tell whether it will bring major camera hardware upgrades.
