Last week, Samsung the 5nm Exynos 1080 chipset that will power the forthcoming upper mid-range smartphones. Just as the predecessor Exynos 980 was first used on the Vivo X30 series last year, it is speculated that the Vivo X60 series could be debuting as the first Exynos 1080 SoC powered smartphones. During the official announcement of the Exynos 1080, Samsung claimed that an unspecified handset powered by the Exynos 1080 scored over 650,000 points on AnTuTu benchmarks. Today, AnTuTu shared a benchmarks screengrab of a mysterious phone that is codenamed as Orion. The device recorded an impressive score of 693,600 on the benchmarking platform.
The mysterious Orion smartphone features a display that produces 2376 x 1080 full HD+ resolution and it runs on Android 11 OS. The UX test on the device revealed that the phone supports at least a 120Hz refresh rate. The Exynos 1080 SoC is accompanied by 8 GB of LPPDDR5 RAM and 512 GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
The identity of the Orion phone is not known. It could be a Vivo X60 series smartphone. In the CPU, GPU, memory, and UX tests of AnTuTu, the Orion handset scored 181,009, 297,676, 115,169, and 99,656. The overall 693,600 AnTuTu score is higher than the overclocked Snapdragon 865 Plus flagship chipset, a variant of the SD865 which powered most of the Android flagship phones this year.
The Exynos 1080 SoC that is built with 5nm LPE processing technology. AnTuTu has mentioned that the octa-core chipset includes four Cortex-A78 CPU cores, four Cortex-A55 CPU cores, and Mali-G78 graphics. Vivo has reportedly started teasing the arrival of the Vivo X60 series in China and it is likely to launch in a month or two.
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