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Samsung Galaxy A9: 5.5-Inch FHD Display, Snapdragon 620, 3GB of RAM

Samsung will soon launch a new, worthy mid-ranger

Oct 9, 2015 09:20 GMT  ·  By
Samsung Galaxy A9 shows up in benchmarks
   Samsung Galaxy A9 shows up in benchmarks

Last month, a purported Samsung Galaxy A9 smartphone showed up online, revealing the face of what might be the first handset to make a debut into the wild with a Snapdragon 620 processor under the hood.

Now the same device has been spotted by @OnLeaks in the AnTuTu benchmarking app, basically confirming most of the information we had before.

The phone will make a debut with a 5.5-inch display with 1080p resolution support (1080 x 1920 pixels) and will draw life from a 64-bit quad-core Snapdragon 620 processor paired with Adreno 510 GPU. The leak also reveals that we should expect the Galaxy A9 to arrive with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.

The Snapdragon 620 might make a debut into this smartphone

The Snapdragon 620 is yet to make its way into actual devices, but the silicon piece has been spotted around the web at least a few times. The chipset is expected to make a debut into the jungle with four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 1.8GHz inside, which indicates that the platform will be quite powerful. The other four cores making up the octa-core setup are of the A53 variety and clocked at 1.2GHz.

It should also be noted that the SoC is limited to LPDD3 RAM support, but even so, the Snapdragon 620 proves to be a very potent chipset.

Back when the Galaxy A9 made its first appearance, we told you that the phone managed to score 1,513 points in the single-core test and 4,051 points in the multi-core test in Geekbench 3. By comparison, the Snapdragon 810 managed to grab 1,227 points in single-core and 4,425 points in multi-core. So their performance should be quite similar.

The unannounced handset is listed in benchmarks as running Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box, but given that Android 6.0 Marshmallow has been unleashed upon the world, we have to assume that Samsung will launch the Galaxy A9 with the latest Google has to offer.

The current Galaxy A8 model takes advantage of a Snapdragon 615 chipset and 2GB of RAM, so the Galaxy A9 will represent a pretty important upgrade. The new phone will probably launch by the end of 2016.