Around two weeks ago, Taiwan-based MediaTek had announced the Helio P90 smartphone. Rumors have it that the new SoC from MediaTek will be present under the hood of the OPPO R19 smartphone that is expected to go official in the first quarter of 2019. The AnTuTu benchmarks of the Helio P90 chipset has surfaced today. It reveals that it is powerful enough to rival with the Snapdragon 710 chipset.
The AnTuTu benchmarks shown below seems to belong to a testing unit. It features a display that supports full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2160 pixels. The handset includes 6 GB of RAM and it is equipped with an inbuilt storage of 128 GB. The testing device has acquired an average benchmarking score of 162,861 on AnTuTu. The Snapdragon 710 that powers the OPPO R17 Pro offers slightly better performance than the Helio P90.
The 12nm Helio P90 is an octa-core processor that includes two 2.2 GHz Cortex A75 CPU cores and six 2.0 GHz Cortex A55 cores. Smartphones powered with Helio P90 can feature up to 8 GB of RAM. The chipset includes PowerVR GM 9446 graphics. It supports full HD+ resolution of up 1080 x 2520 pixels, up to 48-megapixel single camera sensor or 24-megapixel + 16-megapixel dual cameras. The enhanced AI on Helio P90 promises four times better AI capabilities than Helio P60 and Helio P70 chipsets. Other features of the Helio P90 are support for Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, FM Radio, 4G Cat. 12 / 13 LTE modem, dual 4G VoLTE, ViLTE, 4×4 MIMO and 3CA.
It remains to be seen whether the upcoming OPPO R19 will be featuring the Helio P90 chipset. Lesser known Chinese smartphone brand Blackview has claimed that it will be the smartphone maker to launch the first Helio P90 chipset.
