Mediatek announced a new chip, the Helio X30, back in August. The Helio X30 is the world’s first mobile processor using 10nm fabrication process and will be manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

New details have been released about the new deca-core chip. We already know it will make use of a tri-cluster design consisting of two cortex A-73 cores clocked at 2.8GHz, four cortex-A53 cores clocked at 2.3GHz, and four Cortex-A35 cores clocked at 2.0GHz.

The A-73 cores are the new high-performance cores taking over from previous generation A-72. They will offer better performance and lower power consumption than the latter.

The A-53 cores are possibly ARM’s most balanced cores when it comes to performance and power efficiency. The A-35 cores are the most power-efficient cores from ARM with power consumption not exceeding 125mW and can even be less than 100mW in some cases.

Mediatek has released a performance sheet that compares the Helio X30 to the Helio X20 but the font is tiny and blurs out when you try to zoom in.

The new tri-cluster architecture offers a 53% increase in power saving and 43% improvement in performance over the Helio X20. The Mali-T880 GPU has also been replaced with a PowerVR 7XT series that provides 2.4 times better performance and a 58% increase in power savings.

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The Helio X30 also adds 4K VP9 encode support for videos and ups the maximum camera sensor supported to 28MP from 25MP on the X20. Memory support also takes an upgrade. It will now support four 16-bit LPDDR4X (max. 8GB) and UFS 2.1 storage. Connectivity also gets an upgrade from Cat-6 to Cat-10.

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According to Mediatek, mass production should begin early next year.

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We have seen some pretty good chipsets from Mediatek in the past few years. This year, there is the Helio X20 chip, the world’s first deca-core processor for the upper mid-range market. Then there’s the Helio P10 and P20 for the mid-range market and Helio X10, MT6753 and MT6735 for the lower segments.

While these processors are quite powerful for their respective segments, when it comes to the GPU performance, Mediatek uses Mali GPUs which usually lag behind Snapdragon’s own Adreno GPUs. Even in the case of its best chipset, the Helio X20, the GPU performance isn’t that great. However, with the upcoming Helio X30 flagship chipset, things couldbe different.

According to the noted analyst, Pan Jiutang from China, there are rumors going around that Mediatek will use Imagination’s PowerVR graphics processor for its next generation Helio X30 chipset. However, he failed to mention a possible GPU model from the PowerVR family. Despite the unknown model, if the company has decided to shift to PowerVR GPU, we hope that it’s a powerful version that can complement the CPU performance.

As for the CPU specs, the company will reportedly continue with its deca-core architecture built on the 16nm process on the upcoming chip. The possible architecture of the Helio X30 could be 2 x 1GHz Cortex A53 + 2 x 1.5GHz Cortex A53 + 2 x 2GHz Cortex A72 and 4 X 2.5GHz Cortex A72 cores. Note here that there are four different clusters, instead of the tri-cluster architecture found inside the Helio X20.

We still don’t know the release for the new Helio X30 chipset, but considering the company announced the X20 quite early last year, we could see an announcement soon. Stay tuned for more details.

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