Earlier this week, an upcoming Samsung Android tablet carrying the model number SM-T387 had been spotted on the Wi-Fi Alliance website. It is believed that the SM-T387 will be headed to multiple US carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular. The Verizon-bound variant, carrying the model number SM-T387V has now appeared on the Geekbench benchmark database, revealing its core specifications ahead of launch.
Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2018) Verizon Variant Appears on Geekbench
According to the Geekbench listing for the SM-T387V, the upcoming tablet will be running on a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Going by the single-core score of 653 points and multi-core score of 1831 points, we think the Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2018) might be powered by the Snapdragon 425 chipset. The Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017) also runs on the same chipset, so the newer version is likely to be a minor update. However, it should be noted that the listing has the motherboard listed as “msm8937”, which refers to the Snapdragon 430, an octa-core SoC. Since the tablet will be an affordable model, it packs 2GB of RAM, identical to the Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017). In terms of software, the Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2018) will be running on the latest Android 8.1 Oreo operating system out of the box with Samsung’s custom UX layer on top.
