It was reported in November 2021 that Samsung may launch a tablet named the Galaxy Tab S8 FE towards the end of 2022. As the moniker suggests, it could be an affordable version of the Galaxy Tab S8 tablet. It appears that last year’s rumor may become true as the alleged tablet has surfaced in the database of the Geekbench benchmarking site.

Previous reports have claimed that the model numbers SM-X500 and SM-X506B are both associated with the Galaxy Tab S8 FE. According to GalaxyClub.nl, the SM-X506B model has emerged on Geekbench. The listing reveals that it is powered by a MediaTek chip, which has an MT8791V/ZA model number. It is nothing but the 6nm Kompanio 900T chip, which was announced by the Taiwanese chip maker in September 2021.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 FE Geekbench
Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 FE Geekbench listing

The Kompanio 900T chip is specially designed for tablets and Chromebooks. It features 2 x Cortex-A78 CPU cores, 6 x Cortex-A55 cores, and a Mali-G68 GPU. When we look at the Geekbench listing again, we can see that the SoC comes with 4 GB of RAM.

What’s interesting about the listing is that it reveals that the device is running on Android 13. Hence, it is expected to debut as Samsung’s first tablet with the new Android OS onboard. The tablet scored 773 in the single-core test and 2318 in the multi-core test of the Geekbench 5.

The other specifications of the Galaxy Tab S8 FE. It will be arriving as a successor to the Galaxy Tab S7 FE. Considering that it belongs to the Tab S8 family, it may borrow some of its specs from the vanilla Tab S8. Now that the tablet has appeared on Geekbench, it appears that it may take only a few days, if not weeks, to go official.

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