MediaTek's Helio X10 chip went quite a long way toward pushing the company further up the market. Featuring an octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU (up to 2.2GHz) and PowerVR G6200 GPU, it powers a bunch of premium offerings - the Sony Xperia M5, HTC One ME, One E9, One M9+ and One E9+ and Meizu MX5 to name a few.
Its successor the Helio X20 is the first to introduce a deca-core (means 10-core) processor and tri-cluster architecture. It utilizes 4x Cortex-A53 at 1.4GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 at 2.0GHz and 2x Cortex-A72 up to 2.5GHz. Its GPU is superior too - Mali-T880MP4 unit. The Helio X20 is yet to launch on a mobile phones, but MediaTek has already detailed its successor - Helio X30.
- Helio X30 We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 (Adreno 618) with the older 10-core MediaTek Helio X30 (PowerVR GT7400 Plus) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
- MediaTek’s Helio X30 is among the first wave of 10nm smartphone chipsets that will be available to the market, and the only smartphone SOC to use 10 nanometer fabrication, 10 processing cores (Deca-core), and 3x Carrier Aggregation with a performance of 450MBit/s for high volume content streaming.
- Snapdragon 855 Helio X30 We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 (Adreno 640) with the older 10-core MediaTek Helio X30 (PowerVR GT7400 Plus) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Helio X30 (MT6799) is a 64-bit deca-core ARM LTE system on a chip designed by MediaTek and launched in early 2017.
The Helio X30 samples should be ready by the end of the year, but now we can finally shed some light on its specs. The X30 will also offer a 10-core processor, but it will come with a new 4-cluster architecture. One of those features 4 powerful Cortex-A72 cores - two more than what the X20 offers. The complete breakdown goes like this: 2x Cortex-A53 at 1.0GHz, 2x Cortex-A53 at 1.5GHz, 2x Cortex-A53 at 2.0GHz and 4x Cortex-A72 at 2.5GHz.
The GPU remains the same - Mali-T880, though the number of GPU cores is yet to be confirmed. Helio X20 uses Mali-T880MP4, which is a quad-core configuration, but maybe the Helio X30 will opt for MP6 or MP8 configuration. We'll know more soon, for sure.
The Helio X30 will be manufactured on a 16nm FinFet process, which is better than Snapdragon 820's 20nm process, but slightly behind Samsung's 14nm FinFet process for the Exynos 7420.
As we noted above the Helio X30 samples should appear by the end of the year and the first mass-market devices to use it will most probably hit the shelves sometime in 2016.
Reader comments
- mik
- ptP
What is the difrinds X40 and 845. / 853 ?
- AnonD-644770
- y$c
Its not processors fault but the battery makes the phone overheat
Helio X20
- Anonymous
- tu6
its not mali or powervr fault..mediatek isn't serious in making high end cpu..ewerytime mediatek coupled their cpu with mali low end performance gpu..always use mp4 gpu..exynos and kirin use mp8 atleast for their high end cpu...its mediatek to blame....
Mediatek Helio X30
Mtk6799 Processor