Mediatek have officially announce their true 8-coremobile phonechipset today. More details of the 8-coreMT6592 here.
While Samsung’s latest 8-coreprocessor still runs on the big.Little framework, the 8-core Mediatek MT6592 will be the first 8-coreprocessor which will actually run all 8 cores simultaneously.
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According to a white paper (download here in Chinese) which Mediatek published today, the benefits of running all 8 cores at once include better energy efficiency, higher performance and up to a 20% increase in 1080p video frame rate.
The Whitepaper goes on to tell the benefits of a true 8-core chipset, however the actual official specifications are still missing! Earlier reports and leaks suggest that the MT6592 will features a mulit-core Mali GPU and will run 8 A7 28nm cores at unto 2ghz. The chipset will support 1080 display, HEVC and VP9 decoding, 13 mega-pixel cameras and will be able to run Android 5.0 OS.
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Interesting. Last I heard, they were going to use the PowerVR SGX544MP4.
Would be very interesting now that they’re moving to the Mali GPU instead. I wonder if we’ll see the same Mali GPU as found in the latest exynos 5420
acording to this http://research.maybank-ib.com/pdf/documentrg/MediaTek_170713_2567.pdf its going to be a PowerVR SGX6XX GPU 🙂
Really, really glad to see good news on the power efficiency front.
8 cores@ 1.2GHz look very very good compared to 4 core @ 2GHz
I want that in a 5″ phone.
4core @2GHZ in a 13″ tablet and 15000mAh battery! 😀
15000mAh battery? Currently, that is almost impossible. You should not buy a smartphone. Buy a brick instead… lol