The Samsung Galaxy S21 series is expected to launch in the first or second week of January 2021. However, leaks of the phone’s specifications and renderings have been frequent recently. Today, a new Samsung device appeared on Geekbench.
The device has a model number SM-G996U, which directly confirms that this is the Geekbench data for the Samsung Galaxy S21+. The key information revealed by Geekbench is that the device is powered by a chipset codenamed Lahaina.
According to reports, the Lahaina is the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 chipset. More interestingly, the phone has scored higher than in the previous Geekbench test, where this device was powered by the Exynos 2100 chipset.
The Galaxy S21+ with the Snapdragon 875 SoC scored 1120 in the single-core test and 3319 in the multi-core test. This is the US version of the Galaxy S21+. Samsung typically uses Snapdragon chipsets in its US and Chinese versions of its devices.
In Geekbench tests, this chipset’s base frequency is about 1.8 GHz. Previous reports stated that the Snapdragon 875 will use an octa-core architecture with the following cores: one Cortex-X1 core, three Cortex-A78 cores, and four Cortex-A55 cores.
The chipset will also feature an Adreno 660 GPU. Both the Exynos 2100 and the Snapdragon 875 use the same 5nm manufacturing process.