Taiwanese fabless chipmaker MediaTek has announced a new chipset dubbed Helio P65. The new chipset is very similar to the Helio P70 but isn’t a very big upgrade over either the P70 or the older Helio P60. However, the chipset comes with faster CPU cores as well as an improved Neural processing unit (NPU).
In terms of its architecture, the MediaTek Helio P65 Systems-on-Chip (SoC) has a CPU with two ARM Cortex-A75 cores and six Cortex-A55 cores in an octa-core arrangement.
In comparison, the Helio P60 and P70 both feature four Cortex-A73 and four Cortex-A53. Details released by ARM shows that the Cortex-A75 is about 22% faster than the A73. On the other hand, Cortex-A55 is also about 18% faster than the A53. Thus, the new chipset is expected to output a higher single-threaded performance than its predecessors. We don’t expect the same improvement on the multi-core performance where it may likely perform less than Helio P60/P70 due to the difference in the proportion of bug and small cores.
The new Helio P65 doesn’t have the dressing of an upper mid-range chipset but at best one for low-end mid-range or budget models as can be seen other features. The SoC uses the Mali-G52 GPU instead of the more powerful Mali-G72 found on the P70. The chipset also comes with support for 1GB LPDDR4X RAM and can only connect with eMMc 5.1 storage and not the faster UFS 2.1 flash storage. 
In addition, the Helio P65 supports up to a 48MP single camera sensor and a maximum of 16MP+16MP dual camera setup. You can also get bokeh shots with a single or dual camera and it also comes with Multi-Frame Noise Reduction. MediaTek also says the P65 is twice as fast as the previous mainstream Helio chipset in NPU. The chipset is also said to be 30% faster than what’s in the “direct competitor” chipset.
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For video encoding, the chipset supports H.265 format and has Electronic Image Stabilization and Rolling Shutter compensation (RSC). The chipset only supports recording up to 1080p/60 videos as there is no support for 4K video recording. There is also a more secure ISP promises fast camera-based face unlock.
MediaTek didn’t reveal any detail on the new chipset’s manufacturing process. However, we can take a cue from the Helio P60, P70 and P90 to guess that the chipset is built on TSMC’s 12nm FinFET nod.
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