The Geekbench scoreboard slipped in another new entry yesterday. Samsung Galaxy A16 5G has surfaced now on the platform. It showed up with a 6 GB base RAM configuration, and there were SoC details in the benchmark as well. Listed on Geekbench, we believe A16 5G is one step closer to launch.
So what kind of SoC are we looking at here? Geekbench mentions an 8-core processor on a motherboard codenamed ‘a16xm.’ Two of those cores have a boost clock of 2.4 GHz, and the rest top out at 2.0 GHz. There’s only one platform with the same architecture. And that’s MTK’s latest Dimensity 6300.
With the D6300, we have 5G onboard the ‘SM-A166P.’ Yes, that’s the model number for this 5G A16 variant. Geekbench tested this phone's 6GB RAM configuration. There are probably other options with better RAM, and the Geekbench performance might go up or down with said options.
But for now, their Geekbench single-core test for the Samsung new 5G budget handset yielded 512 points. And it did slightly better in the multicore test with 1464 points. Like always, Samsung isn’t trying to break any records here. They are very comfortable with the phone’s lower entry-level position.
It has Android 14 as the default OS, probably layered with One UI’s latest firmware version up to launch time. We have a 4G variant also coming in hot with, more or less, a similar feature set, save the SoC. Now that the 5G variant is up on the scoreboard, the A16 4G will also make it to the Geekbench soon.