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Samsung recently launched the Galaxy A71 in India earlier this week. The new smartphone was priced at Rs. 29,999 in India and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 SoC. It was previously reported that the South Korean smartphone maker is also working on a 5G variant of the same smartphone for the China market, and now it has been spotted on Geekbench sporting a different processor. 

Sammobile reports[1] that the Samsung SM-A7160, thought to be the 5G variant of the Samsung Galaxy A71[2], was recently spotted on Geekbench sporting the Samsung Exynos 980 SoC[3]. This processor was unveiled[4] by Samsung[5] a back in September as its first in-house chip which sported an integrated 5G modem. This eliminates the need of pairing a separate 5G modem with the chipset.

Samsung's Galaxy A71 5G made an appearance on Geekbench confirming the previously reported[6] Exynos 980 SoC paired with 8GB of RAM. The smartphone managed to post a score of 3078 and 7346 for single-core and multi-core tests respectively. The Galaxy A71 5G was also spotted running Android 10[7] and we are expecting it to run One UI 2.0 on top. It was previously reported to feature 128GB of inbuilt storage.

The Samsung Exynos 980 SoC is an octa-core processor based on an 8nm FinFET process, it has two Cortex-A77 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and six Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.8GHz. The integrated modem will also help a smartphone using this processor achieve speeds of up to 2.55Gbps in sub 6-GHz 5G. The processor is also said to support Wi-Fi 6.

While it had been initially reported Samsung would launch the Galaxy A71 5G in...

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