Samsung unveiled its best-ever mid-range phone, the Galaxy A57, earlier today. Along with improved camera quality, the phone delivers faster performance thanks to its new Exynos 1680 processor. To support that increased performance, Samsung has equipped the Galaxy A57 with a larger vapor chamber cooling system.

The Galaxy A57 features a vapor chamber cooling system that is 13% larger than the one in the Galaxy A56. Combined with the new processor, which is built on an enhanced 4nm fabrication process, the upgraded cooling system should help the device sustain performance more effectively than its predecessor.

The Exynos 1680 includes five high-performance Cortex-A720 CPU cores and three power-efficient Cortex-A520 CPU cores. It also features Samsung’s newer in-house GPU, the Xclipse 550. This GPU is based on AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture and uses two Work Group Processors (WGPs) and two Render Blocks (RBs), offering improved graphical performance compared to the Exynos 1580.

With a faster chipset and a larger vapor chamber, the Galaxy A57 should be able to sustain performance for longer periods. However, Samsung has not provided specific claims regarding sustained performance. We will evaluate its real-world performance in our full review once we get our hands on the device.

Samsung has been increasingly using bigger vapor chamber systems in its mid-range and high-end phones so that chips used in those phones can better use all that processing performance for a longer period. Even the Galaxy S26 series uses bigger vapor chambers than phones in the Galaxy S25 lineup.