MediaTek in smartphone chips is like AMD in PC chips. A market that is dominated by Qualcomm (Intel in PC), players like MediaTek, HiSilicon’s Kirin, Samsung’s Exynos and Apple’s Bionic are fighting to get their share.
Today MediaTek has announced a new chip, which shows how serious the company is towards gaming and optimized performance. The all-new, MediaTek Helio G85 processor. This brand new chipset is based on a 14nm processor and is now placed aside its counterpart, Helio G90. Helio G85 is the fifth mobile processor in the G-Series of MediaTek’s processor. The family of G-series includes Helio G90, Helio G90T, Helio G80, and Helio G70.
Digging deeper into MediaTek Helio G85 specs, the Helio G85’s CPU is an octa-core processor, containing six Cortex-A-55 cores clocking at 1.8GHz and two Cortex-A-75 cores clocking at 2GHz. This will be adjoined to ARM’s Mali G-52 GPU of 1GHz. Further, it has a large L3 cache and the proprietary technology called HyperEngine, which is an intelligent resource manager that is responsible for sustained performance over long term.
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This whole package, though 5G incapable, is good at handling heavy games and sophisticating in camera, navigation, voice commands, and connectivity. MediaTek claims this concurrency between LTE and Wi-Fi will be detected and switched in just 13 milliseconds. This quick transmission will help save your game from disconnecting whenever there’s a need to switch between networks.
Further, Helio G85 has a NeuroPilot which can enhance the camera’s scene detection, background removal, Smart Photo Album, object recognition, and clever Bokeh-shots. It has got the rolling shutter tech and image stabilization support too. Further, there’s a clever voice wakeup to use less power for triggering the voice assistants and respond quickly.
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This chipset is optimal for smartphones fitting 48-megapixel sensors with 240fps. It is optimized for better location detection and navigation, Wi-Fi 5, and enhanced connections of LTE. And the first phone to feature this chip, is the Redmi’s latest Note 9 handset.
MediaTek is so undervalued that, community hasn’t cared much about its first 5G chip – Dimensity 1000. While it’s true that it may not compete with Qualcomm’s chips in high-end performances, MediaTek is clearly beating Qualcomm in budget and mid-range segments with almost parallel performance, at far cheap price. So, what do you think about MediaTek’s new gaming chip?
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