The first time we heard about the Helio G70 was in an exclusive leak from last week about the upcoming Redmi 9 phone. The leak revealed the phone will be powered by the yet-to-be-announced chipset. Now, details about the processor have been leaked.
According to a Weibo post made by Digital Chat Station yesterday, the Helio G70 is an “entry-level-ish” processor. That is not surprising since the Redmi 9 is expected to be an entry-level/lower mid-range device.
He goes further to reveal the chipset will have 8 cores in a 2 + 6 configuration. It will have 2 x Cortex-A75 cores clocked at 2.0GHz and 6 x Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.7GHz or 1.8GHz. The leakster also mentioned Mediatek will use a Mali-G52 MC2 GPU inside the chipset.
Based on the above configuration, the Helio G70 should sit below the Helio P65, which has 4 x Cortex-A75 + 4 x Cortex-A55 cores, with respect to performance.
Redmi’s decision to use a MediaTek processor for the Redmi 8’s successor marks the manufacturer’s return to MediaTek processors since 2018’s Redmi 6. At the moment, we do not know if the Redmi 9A will use the same processor as its sibling since the Redmi 8A and Redmi 8 use the same processor.
MediaTek is yet to announce the processor but going by its recent “exclusive” partnerships with Redmi, the Redmi 9 may be the first phone to be powered by the processor.
The Redmi 9 is expected to launch in early 2020. It will have a 6.6-inch display, a not so small bump when compared to the 6.2-inch screen of the Redmi 8. Along with the Helio G70 processor will be 4GB of RAM. However, there should be other RAM variants too.
It should also run MIUI 11 based on Android 10 out of the box, have a big battery capacity, a USB Type-C port, and support for fast charging.
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