The widely popular Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime is apparently getting a new Value Edition version, and leaked benchmark results now offer more details.
Samsung has never been too shy about flooding the market with a slew of devices, many of which got several versions and variations. It now looks like the Galaxy Grand Prime (pictured above) may be the next in line for a touch-up, launching in a new variant with slight tweaks here and there.
Just recently, a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Value Edition made its way online, in the form of an unconfirmed leak. A subsequent report suggested that the new Value Edition of the handset would boast a 64-bit quad-core Cortex-A53 Marvel PXA 1908 processor under the hood, instead of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chipset powering the original Galaxy Grand Prime.
It all remains unconfirmed still, but more information has now come to light. More specifically, it appears that one of GSM Arena's readers got their hands on the purported Galaxy Grand Prime Value Edition and shared some benchmark results with the publication.
This new leak reveals that the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Value Edition, carrying model number SM-G531H, in fact packs a Spreadtrum SC8830 processor, which combines a 1.3GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 chipset with a Mali-400MP2 graphics processing unit (GPU) and 1GB of RAM.
Other alleged specifications of the unannounced Galaxy Grand Prime Value Edition include 8GB of built-in storage capacity, an 8-megapixel main camera on the rear, a 5-megapixel front camera, and a 2,600 mAh battery. The device apparently runs Android 5.0 Lollipop and features LTE connectivity.
GSM Arena made a comparison between the processor performance of the Galaxy Grand Prime and the Galaxy Grand Prime Value Edition, and the results weigh in Qualcomm's favor. The publication used the score it had in its own test database for the Snapdragon 410 processor, and the user-submitted score for the Spreadtrum SC8830 chipset.
As GSM Arena itself points out, however, the two devices don't run the same version of Android, and the tests don't involve the same circumstances. Nevertheless, if the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Value Edition indeed proves to deliver a poorer performance compared to the original Galaxy Grand Prime, the difference should imply a lower price as well.
