After several leaks, MediaTek has finally officially lifted the veil on its Helio X20 processor, the first Soc in the world to integrate ten cores. A processor engraved in 20 nanometers and intended for mid-range smartphones that will compete directly with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 620 in the second half of the year.
As we’ve already seen, this MediaTek Helio X20 core processor has three clusters: a first consisting of two A72 cores clocked at 2.5 Ghz for heavy tasks, a second consisting of four A53 cores clocked at 2 Ghz and a third consisting of four A53 cores clocked at 1.4 Ghz. An architecture that will allow it to offer an energy performance 30% higher than that of a conventional two-cluster processor by switching some greedy tasks to the A53 to 2 Ghz cores instead of the A72.
Not content with shippinging ten cores, the processor incorporates the firm’s first CDMA2000 compatible modem, which will offer it 4G Category 6 (300/50 Mbps) with an energy consumption 30% lower than that of the Helio X10 (MT6795). An important springboard for the company looking to enter the U.S. market. There will also be 802.11ac Wifi, which is expected to reach speeds of up to 280 Mbps.
On the graphics performance side, we will find, not a Mali T880 MP4 GPU, as originally planned, but an equivalent chip that should offer 40% more performance than the PowerVR G6200 of the Helio X10 for 40% lower energy consumption. There will also be a 364 MHz Cortex-M4 core that will act as an audio processor and support voice recognition processing.
As for memory, we will stay on the LPDDR3 2 x 32bit clocked at 933 MHz. According to MediaTek, this won’t be a problem knowing that the Soc remains limited to 1440p Quad HD definition screens. It should be noted that for its part, the Snapdragon 818 future 10 core processor of Qualcomm should support the RAM LPDDR4.
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