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Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) Specs

Technical specifications of the Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) smartphone. This one has a processor which has 8 cores, 8 threads, a maximum frequency of 2.2GHz. The table below allows us to observe well the lithography, the amount of RAM that we can get, the release date, the values obtained in the AnTuTu, Passmark, or Geekbench 4 platforms.

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Specifications:

Smartphone		Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018)
Model version(s)		SM-A530F, SM-A530K, SM-A530L, SM-A530N, SM-A530S, SM-A530W
Release date		Q1 2018
Network		GSM, HSPA, LTE
Dimensions		5.87 x 2.78 x 0.33 in
Weight		6.07 oz
Body		Front and back glass, aluminum frame
Screen size, colours		5.6 inches, 16M colours
Screen type		Super AMOLED
Resolution		1080 x 2220 pixels
Screen ratio		18.5:9
Density		441 ppi
Operating system		Android 7.1.1
Processor		Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 7885
Lithography		14 nm LPP
Cores		8
Threads		8
Energy cores		6x ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.6 GHz
High performance cores		2x ARM Cortex-A73 @ 2.2 GHz
GPU		ARM Mali-G71 MP2
GPU execution units		2
GPU shading units		32
GPU base clock rate		770 MHz
GPU max clock rate		1,300 MHz
GPU FP32 floating point		49.3 GFLOPS
Memory		4 GB RAM
Storage		32 / 64 GB
Memory card		Up to 256 GB
Photo		16 MP, f/1,7, 26mm
Video		1080p30
Front photo		16 MP, f/1,9, 26mm, 8 MP, f/1,9, 24mm
Front video		1080p30
WLAN		Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Bluetooth		5.0, A2DP, LE
USB		USB Type-C 2.0
Battery capacity		3,000 mAh
Battery type		Non removable Li-Ion
Battery life (versatile use)		~ 10 hours and 50 minutes
TDP		6 W
Head SAR		-
Body SAR		-
DxOMark		79
AnTuTu		146,821
Android PassMark Rating		3,970
(Android 64-bit) Geekbench 4 single core		1,382
(Android 64-bit) Geekbench 4 multi-core		3,960
(Android) Geekbench 5 single core		304
(Android) Geekbench 5 multi-core		1,009
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Autonomy: the autonomy given is the one for a versatile use with video playback, web browsing, various applications, games, photos, etc ...

Performances :

Comparison of the performances between this smartphone and those of a similar power, for this we consider the results generated on software of benchmarks such as Geekbench 4.

	AnTuTu - Total score
Oppo A53s#ad	148,196
Oppo A9#ad	147,964
Motorola Moto G8 Play#ad	147,508
Realme C17#ad	147,383
Umidigi Bison#ad	147,132
Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018)#ad	146,821
Vivo S1#ad	146,552
Vivo V15#ad	146,470
Nokia 6.2#ad	146,107
Nokia 3.4#ad	145,625

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average of the performances got with these smartphones, you may get different results.

AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.

	Android PassMark Rating
Samsung Galaxy M31s#ad	4,032
Lenovo K10 Plus#ad	4,027
Vivo S1#ad	4,002
Vivo V17 Neo#ad	4,000
Vivo Y7s#ad	3,999
Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018)#ad	3,970
Huawei Y8p#ad	3,890
Samsung Galaxy M12#ad	3,831
Samsung Galaxy A21s#ad	3,822
Samsung Galaxy A20#ad	3,772

Note: Commissions may be earned from the links above. These scores are only an
average of the performances got with these smartphones, you may get different results.

PassMark is a benchmarking software that performs several performance tests including prime numbers, integers, floating point, compression, physics, extended instructions, encoding, sorting. The higher the score is, the higher is the device capacity.

	Geekbench 4 - Multi-core & single core score - Android 64-bit
Samsung Galaxy A40s#ad	1,290 4,004
Samsung Galaxy A40#ad	1,280 3,998
Samsung Galaxy A30#ad	1,265 3,985
LG K71#ad	796 3,983
Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018)#ad	1,382 3,960
Oppo A31#ad	889 3,930
Motorola Moto G8 Power Lite#ad	905 3,928
Honor Play 8A#ad	860 3,921
LG Stylo 6#ad	787 3,916

Note: Commissions may be earned from the links above. These scores are only an
average of the performances got with these smartphones, you may get different results.

Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.

	Geekbench 5 - Multi-core & single core score - Android
HiSense A5 Pro#ad	348 1,076
Vivo Y20#ad	254 1,062
Infinix S5 Pro#ad	186 1,045
Vivo Y20i#ad	254 1,016
Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018)#ad	304 1,009
Tecno Camon 15 Pro#ad	176 1,003
Samsung Galaxy A12#ad	166 990
Realme C15#ad	168 967
Samsung Galaxy A21s#ad	166 967

Note: Commissions may be earned from the links above. These scores are only an
average of the performances got with these smartphones, you may get different results.

Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.

List of comparisons:

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List of benchmarks:

AnTuTuGeekbench 4 on AndroidGeekbench 5 on AndroidPassMark