At the end of May, MediaTek announced its 7nm FinFET 5G-enabled processor which features an integrated Helio M70 5G modem, Cortex-A77 CPU, and Mali-G77 GPU.
The chipset is scheduled to be mass-produced by the end of the year and will appear in devices by the first quarter of 2020. Today, a Geekbench result showing the processor’s performance has surfaced on the web.
The benchmark result shows the processor scored 3447 points in the single-core test and then 12151 points in the multi-core score. The result also shows the test device is running Android 10.
Compared to the Kirin 990, MediaTek’s flagship processor scored less in the single-core test but trumped the Kirin 990 in the multi-core test. The same thing applies to the Geekbench score of the Vivo NEX 3 which is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ processor.
The technical details of the processor were not revealed back when it was announced in May but Chinese tech blogger @Digital Chat Station, said the Cortex-A77 CPU cores are clocked at about 2.3GHz. He also added that phones powered by the chipset will be priced at about ¥3000 (~$420).
MediaTek’s 5G processor will definitely show up in a Chinese phone first but we don’t know which of the big players will be the first to announce a phone with the chipset inside. However, OPPO and Vivo seem like possible options.
MediaTek says it is aiming for 60 million shipments of 5G chips next year. To achieve this we expect it to bring Huawei and HMD-Global on-board. We also expect that the Taiwanese company will announce another SoC with an integrated 5G modem as a follow-up with most likely a higher clock-speed.
Samsung is the only other manufacturer with a 5G processor for the affordable 5G devices and China’s Vivo already confirmed it will launch a phone powered by the chipset which is called the Exynos 980 this year.
Qualcomm seems to be lagging behind in the affordable 5G chipset department but we have a feeling it is planning an announcement for Q4 2019.
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