Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) Exynos variant appears on benchmarking site
The refreshed version of Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) appeared on benchmarking sites yet another time, twice in the span of two weeks. Just like its predecessor, Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy J7 (2016) with two different chipsets.
One running on Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC and another on Samsung’s own homegrown Exynos 7870 chipset, which is likely to be the successor of Exynos 7580 found inside the earlier Galaxy J7 variant.
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The new generation of Samsung Galaxy J7 which appeared on both Geekbench and GFXBench have an Exynos 7870 SoC under the hood. The benchmarking database reveals that is has an octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU clocked at up to 1.7 GHz (GFXBench) coupled with 2GB of RAM. The model with Snapdragon 615 SoC inside will likely sport 3GB of RAM.
The Exynos version of the new iteration of the Samsung Galaxy J7 is expected to feature a 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. As reported by GSM Arena, the other variant powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor clocked at 1.5GHz will sport a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) resolution display. However, both the variants will most probably have 16GB of in-built storage.
The Geekbench results also mentions the single-core and multi-core performance results of the Galaxy J7 (2016). The Galaxy J7 (2016) scored 1074 points in single-core and 4368 points in multi-core performance.
The Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) is listed with a 12-megapixel rear camera with auto-focus, touch focus and face detection along with a 5MP front-facing camera. The listing also indicates that the device will be run of Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow out-of-the-box.
According to SamMobile, the new generation of Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) will sport notable upgrade from its predecessor. But the device manufacturer may come up with changes by the time they launch the handset.