Just a few hours back, we reported that Qualcomm may be planning to use the newly announced powerful Cortex A72 processor cores in its 600 series processor. Now new reports have come up online which states that the chipmaker’s direct competitor, Mediatek will also unveil a Cortex A72 powered SoC in the market soon.

The report states that this Chinese chipmaker will use this super powerful A72 cores inside its next SoC which will be based on a 16nm process. Yes, it is said that Mediatek Cortex A72 powered processor will be one of the first chip companies to release a processor based on this high end process.

Cortex A72 is the best processor core from ARM till date. Its both powerful and efficient which increases the performance of mobile handsets to the level of desktop performance. The chip is based on a 16-nanometer chipmaking process, and outputs 30 percent more memory performance and an 80 percent speedier graphics (thanks to the new Mali-T880 GPU). Its in fact 3.5 times more powerful than the predecessor, A15 core. With its powerful specs, the chip can support 4K videos at even 120 fps. It can use ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture, which improves battery efficiency and will even bring Google now style voice commands feature inbuilt into the chip.

Overall, expect the performance of this chip to be much better than existing generations. We still don’t know what will be the name of the Mediatek processor with this new core, but expect it to be in the high end series (probably MT67XX). Stay tuned for more updates.

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Hike is one of the domestic smartphone maker that always offers the bice products, is now this company is iunveiled their new smartphone, the Hike Z1.

Hike Z1 is the new phone that comes ith very large screen size, the phone has 6 inch screen size that why we enter this phone category as phablet device rather than a regular smartphone.

The phone is offers with 1,799 yuan and the price is reduce to 1,499 yuan price, but on July 2nd, the only 500 unit of Hike Z1 phone is offers with only 1,199 yuan price tag or about $192 USD price. The Hike Z1 is running Ali Cloud OS and the user will get the prmotional bonus with 10,000 mAh power bank.

As we mentioned at in the second paragraph, the phone is packs with 6 inch screen size that support for 1080p full HD display, powered by MediaTel MT6589T quad-core processor, sports with 2GB of RAM and 32Gb of internal storage, the phone is also coupled with 8 megapixel front facing camera and 13 megapixel rear facing camera configuration.

The Hike Zq has 81,3 x 158 x 7,9 mm body dimmension, the screen is also has narrow border that makes the phone is more larger than we espected, while the 6 inch is large enough for most phone today. The phone is powering up by 3,000 mAh battery capacity. And this is nice device for reading, working, browsing and playing.

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Before buying anything you need good comparison with something. In the world of technology, there is ‘war’ to make products better and leader in the race. So now the hottest eight core models will undoubtedly be seen as a powerful machine. These eight core models use MediaTek MT6592 CPU but frequency seems different. Here today we are going to look at the comparison and finally at the ending please do not forget to look at the differences between them.

0.3GHz How much bad MT6592 can be against the same door:

There are two modes which are equipped with MediaTek eight core CPU, First one is MediaTek MT6592 and another is MT6592M. These are divided into MT6592 that is 1.7 GHz frequency and the other two version of 2.0 GHz frequency, and here in this article there are three brothers in three main characters. 

MediaTek eight cores can run simultaneously:

In this current case, we could not found relevant information even in the website. There are limited documentation and information regarding this current MediaTek’s device. After reading this article readers will find satisfactory answer, as well as information.

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592 0.3GHz MT6592 with the door against the three brothers

1.4GHz MT6592M CPU-Z parameters

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592 0.3GHz MT6592 with the door against the three brothers

1.7GHz MT6592 CPU-Z parameters

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592 0.3GHz MT6592 with the door against the three brothers

2.0GHz MT6592T CPU-Z parameters

In fact these MediaTek MT6592 with MediaTek MT6592M in architecture and technology are identical, both processor are using the same 28-nanometer CPU technology, which is common in Smartphone and new modern processor but they also are using a 8-based Cortex-A7 core architecture. Both devices’ main differences are mainly related to the frequency and GPU frequency and it can create certain impact here.

software running disparity, Measured performance:

If you are interested in this DIY, computer users must be aware about the same architecture, cache, process, instruction sets and other parameters, Undoubtedly the best way to improve the performance is CPU clocking. We can see MT6592, MT6592M for a three versions of the frequency little or of no difference on performance, so then I have to prepare the scores to compare the differences between these devices. Many users are familiar with the software to run Sub ANTUTU and because of this article we are reviewing only MT6592, MT6592M clocked in the three versions of the CPU.

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592 0.3GHz MT6592 with the door against the three brothers

1.4GHz MT6592M ANTUTU run points

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592 0.3GHz MT6592 with the door against the three brothers

1.7GHz MT6592 ANTUTU run points

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592 0.3GHz MT6592 with the door against the three brothers

2.0GHz MT6592T ANTUTU run points

Floating point score of the integer three CPU is decreased in stepwise manner, which can be also the three sided shows and here frequency is only the parameter affecting their overall performance. I compared the all versions of the processor and GPU score in ANTUTU which has 3D and 2D drawing of two small items, 1.7GHz and 2.0GHz versions 1.4GHz’s MT6592M score is slightly lower, MT6592 score is basically the same,

0.3GH MT6592Energy difference

3D Mark score comparison Three versions MT6592

After this I also used 3D Mark GPU for software testing on the Smartphone that they had been tested. From the test results we can see that both the Extreme mode or normal mode, 1.7Ghz and 2.0GHz scores are somehow same to the MT6592 of, 1.4GHz’s MT6592M score is slightly lower.

0.3GHz MT6592 Difference

Mali-450MP resolved

MediaTek MT6592M and MT6592 models are equipped with GPU Mali-450MP, because its 1.7Ghz GPU frequency of MT6592 700MHz, As stated above we can read that the test version of the MT6592 2.0GHz GPU frequencies are 700MHz, and 1.4GHz. The MT6592M’s GPU frequency should be 600MHz. The things to be noted here is that, there is no view on the Android Platform currently. So the data drawn and conclusions in only inferred and no official data to support are found, that is why the article of mine exist.

Practical experience of Video Test:
At the final stage of test later, I have all three versions of these CPU’s also carried out some aspects of the actual experience, , not for users who bought the phone run points, so more concerned point here is experience differences in terms of users,
Firstly, I tested the video on their terms to see if there are some difference between them or not. We evaluate then in 15 different formats on 1080 P video segment.

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592

1.4GHz MT6592M test results

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592

1.7GHz MT 6592 test results

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592

2.0GHz MT6592T test results

Now here we can see three different versions of the supported formats MT6592 which slightly differ, except for the fact that these differences CPU are also because the Smartphone system itself and the some players decided that they are third-party installed player is normal play system, and in the fluency of the three versions of the processor does not exist qualitative difference, if observed by the naked eye we can’t find noted difference.

Large-scale 3D game test GPU
In addition to the video, the author also directed the three versions of the CPU to actual game, after all, in addition to scores of different CPU, GPU score seems to be different between them, while the gap on these scores could cause our experience will need to pass the test.
I decided to test the game “Need for Speed ​​OL” as a test, because this is large 3D racing game for Smartphones. GPU ask for higher performance for feedback and more apparent. In addition to participating in the test model different CPU, RAM same as 2GB, we try our best on not to let other objective factors affect our test results.

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592

1.4GHz MT6592M running Need for Speed ​​OL Screenshot

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592

1.7GHz MT 6592 running Need for Speed ​​OL Screenshot

2.0GHz MT6592T running Need for Speed ​​OL Screenshot

0.3GHz energy difference? MT6592

Through the demo of Need for Speed ​​OL, we do not feel there is any difference in processor performance, and the screen and special effects have performed very well, they have not dropped frames, pixels etc. There seems some noted differences in GPU frequency but in actual use they don’t seems or feel a significant difference.

Summary:

And by the test running we came to find out noted differencess between MT6592M 1.7GHz/2.0GHz MT6592 and 1.4GHz, we found some of the noted difference in the score and performance. but it actually did not cause much gap in the actual experience so consumers won’t be disappointed. If consumer actually care about the performance or want to play big 3D and normal games then i recommend selecting of 1.7GHz/2.0GHz of MT6592M.

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MT6592 is the MediaTek’s top eight-core processor with 2.0GHz performance and capable to play 1080p resolution in the end, and now we have a test to check the CPU performance and GPU test to play 3D games through TCL Idol X+.

Before the test we take a look at the specs of the processors, MT6592 eight-core version of the built-in 8 full Cortex-A7 architecture core speeds up to 2.0GHz, each core has a 32KB cache and 1MB of shared L2 cache, using 28nm HPM process technology, memory up to a single channel LPDDR3666MHz, while the GPU is ARMMali-450 MP4 frequency reached 700MHz, up to 1920×1080 resolution display.

PS: no power-saving mode throughout the test, and using native version ROM for the idol X+ smartphone.

When we test using AnTUTu Benchmark tool, the 1.7GHz MT6592 machine has got the much higher score points than the existing Snapdragon 800 processor. But in 3D graphics partially only about 6300, while the ordinary version Snapdragon 800 can approach 9000 points, which gap is a bit bigger.

Test 2:3 DMarkv1.2

3DMark to use the built-in three scenarios for testing, respectively Unlimited, Extreme and normal mode, the machine mainly for chipset, CPU and GPU tests, the results could reflect the performance of the peak GPU graphics processing. Test results for the three models 7382,4387 and 6275 points respectively, which scores more than 600 Xiaolong Adreno320 performance worse.

Test 3: GFXBeach3.0

GFCBeach is a cross-platform graphical test software, test GPU rendering performance and the main frame at 1080p quality performance scene. Just after the final results of the highest number of tests 533 17.7fps results, compared to the existing high-end models, the gap is very large. All test scenarios are very basic Caton.

Test 4: RARBeachmark

RAR Beachmark for Android is a veteran WinRAR decompression software Android version, multi-threaded performance CPU performance test major test, speed test can be obtained by decompression and speed generated by the current process, MT6592 in this aspect has a very big advantage, eight Core wide open got 1551KB / s generation rate, which results even more than the Samsung Exynos5420 performance, full eight-core really strong.

Test 5: pi calculation

In the calculation of pi, the main CPU is also using parallel computing, we get 10 million results 34.179s bit before calculating pi, and slightly lower in the ranking of millet 33.9s score 3.

Several tests can be seen above, MT6592 in full eight-core CPU, performance is quite good, with Exynos5420 and Xiaolong 800 comparable, although the Cortex-A7 architecture, but thanks to 2.0GHz clock speed and 28nm HPM process, CPU in real has a very good performance, fever down-severe cases are rare.

In the GPU part, although ARM Mali450MP4 700MHz clock speed, the performance is very good in theory, but why the performance would be so bad? The main reason is: MT6592 single-channel memory controller only supports a maximum 32bit LPDDR3-1333MHz, peak bandwidth of 5.3GB / s, at 1080p resolution due to lack of bandwidth, the actual performance of the natural weakness, APQ8064 8.5GB / s bandwidth at 1080p also barely reach 60fps.

Game test 1: Asphalt8 Samsung store version

Asphalt 8 why choose Samsung store version, this version is due to be optimized for the Mali series GPU, and will not be locked frames. We opened the best picture quality, and monitoring the number of frames with FPS Meter, the highest in the Tokyo track 47, the lowest 22, if the car is less the case, generally can be maintained at more than 30fps, relatively good performance, Caton now rarely, mainly this version optimized.

Game Test 2: Need for Speed ​​17 v1.0.47

Need for Speed ​​17 This version is the highest effects version, the default full effects with motion blur and other effects, the actual measured maximum 37, minimum 24, the basic can be maintained at around 30fps, performed well, it does not appear to play a long time Excessive dropped frames circumstances.

Game Test 3: Modern Warfare 4

Modern Warfare two of the first four GPU demanding compared to the actual measured maximum 39, minimum 18, remaining at around 22, Caton is more obvious, especially in crowded scenes, frames will be more Low.

Game Test 4: Real Racing 3

Quality Real Racing 3 pairs mapping requirements are relatively high, but not a lot of special effects, the actual measured maximum 32, minimum 21, remaining at around 27, was decent, not so, then the pursuit of fluency can still play.

Summary:

Overall, compared to the previous MediaTek MT6592 own a quad-core product has been a huge increase, eight A7 core processing speed has also become more obvious, the theoretical aspects of GPU performance is not bad, but the drawbacks is that the memory controller currently only MediaTek should only stick to the single channel memory of it, the impact of bandwidth on the GPU is critical, peak bandwidth of 5.3GB / s through previous generations APQ8064 is high or low Hass K3V2 have, like in the next want to achieve, such as 1080p silky smooth that is impossible, MT6592 +720 p best combination is, of course, manufacturers need to optimize well, the best hope MediaTek still relatively new processors this year in memory bandwidth good change it.

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The one of Taiwan chipset manufacturer, MediaTek has been get a big wave this year, after they successfully to produce “true” octa-core processor, and now MediaTek is ready to make a new processor.

MediaTek is ready to start sampling a new octa-core high-end chipset that consists of four 2.2-2.5GHz A17 cores and four 1.7GHz A7s, and comes with a Rogue PowerVR Series6 GPU to take care of any graphical needs you might have.

The new MediaTek processor is MT6595 that using core ARM Cortex 17 that already areleased officially. And it’s new chipset is using big.LITTLE architecture inside.

The new octa-core processor is built from four core of ARM Cortex 17 with 2,2 – 2,5 GHz clock-speed, and four core of ARM Cortext A7 with 1.7Ghz clock-speed. The device with these processor can recording and playback of 4K2K video. MediaTek is also claimed its octa-core solution will be faster and more power efficient than Samsung’s Exynos chipset.

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MediaTek and ARM has maintained a close working relationship between the “low-power, high-performance” philosophy coincides, in a few days ago, MediaTek joint statement with ARM, MediaTek formally working on ARM Cortex-A50 series and ARM MALI graphics processor technology licensing.

This means that, on next year you can see the MediaTek launched to support 64-bit multicore processing for mobile SOC chipset, and more MALI series graphics processor (GPU) is applied to the MTK mobile processor.

Cortex-A50 series processors is including Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 processor, both chipset are working based on “ARMv8” architecture, where Cortex-A57 series is the highest performing processor in the A50 lineup, while the A53 is the processor based on low power consumption for energy efficiency, a more simple sequential execution.

Both A50 series processors can support 64-bit processing, backward compatible with 32-bit instruction set, both of which can be used to achieve nuclear technology ARM big.LITTLE size 2 or 4+4+4 different combinations, but also with the A57 and A53 independently used separately, similar to the present combinations A7 + A15 processor.

MediaTek can develop a six and even eight-core mobile processor, the processor are combined from the energy eficiency and powerfull performance. While for now we have MT6575 / 6577 / 6589 processor that used PowerVR SGX5 series GPU, this year's listing of new products in the MT6572 / 6582 switch to the MALI-400 series, and the upcoming eight-core smartphone chip is MT6592 that would be using MALI quad-core GPU.

The next generation of ARM MALI GPU authorization in the future from entry-level to high-end flagship model, and now, the MALI graphics processor will appear in MediaTek's products.

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Although no formal eight-core MTK6592 available to Mediatek, of course, is that many brands smart phones will be scheduled to using this processor, which means that will be an eight-core smartphone out there. Following the other smartphone manufacturer, Jiayu is representation a smaller brands that ready to release the new eight-core smartphone, and now TCL also recently announced that will be released MTK6592 products son.

And is expected to become a starter. Visible MTK6592 high degree of concern, from the announcement of multi-core strategy began, MediaTek’s products linupe has been very clear, the official said that at the end of some time ago MTK will launch true eight-core products through the new MT6592 chipset.

The one of Chianese smartphone vendors, TCL has been cooperation with MediaTek, they ready to build the new TCL smartphone that powered by MTK6589 quad-core platform, followed by the launch of new products, more than 90% of MTK solution, including the recent popular The four core products TCL S950.

The TCL S950 is equipped with the upgrade version of MT6589 (is now they already adopt the MT6589T chips), but also belong to TCL, another smartphone vendor Alcatel is also used MTK chipset intheir products. From the analysis of the relationship between the two, TCL smart phones launched true eight-core smart phone can be of not the slightest bit, become a starter manufacturers also high probability.

MT6592 is MediaTek positioned as the flagship product, using 28-nanometer process technology, built-in eight A7 core, main frequency up to 1.7-2GHz, may use MALI quad GPU, because using a heterogeneous multi-tasking technology, eight core may achieve synchronous operation or idle shut down part of the intelligent core to reduce power consumption.

This is the position of domestic manufacturers will release more than N MTK6592 of smart phones , and sent at the end of MTK6592 officially released.

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Quoted from Maybank Kim Eng Securities’s data, they has been found a more complete overview of MediaTek product roadmap, in addition to the recent concern netizens hot Octa-core MT6592 chipset.

MediaTek will have a variety of smartphone / tablet computer based-on the MT6582 / 6582M, MT6588 and the adoption big.LITTLE architecture MT8135 and so on.

MT6589 / 6589M and MT6589T have large volume production, equipped with a terminal products of these chips have been quick to seize the domestic one thousand yuan four core markets, and some manufacturers also introduced based MT6589/6589T flagship product. MT6572 is now in volume production, China Cool Union, Jin, TCL and Hisense and other power companies are using the program’s product launch, will compete for more market share in the entry-level.

The next Q3, Q4, uses the same Cortex-A7 core MT6582, MT6588 and MT6592 upcoming production, which MT6582 and specifications can be seen as a lower MT6582M MT6589 optimized version of the main frequency upgrade to 1.3GHz, the same as with MT6572 Built-MALI-400 graphics processor that can support W / TD dual mode, 720P resolution and video decoding, will be officially launched in the third quarter.

Specification was clocked higher MT6588 1.7GHz, may be equipped with PowerVR SGX6 Department GPU, support 1080P display and 1080P decoding, 13 million-pixel camera, and uses a 28nm HKMG (high-K metal gate technology), but also take into account the performance and low power consumption, high-end chips MediaTek representative of the product; course, the highest level of the fourth quarter or the MT6592, which is the first true eight-core chip, clocked at up to 2GHz, also supports 1080P and 1080P display codecs and 13 million pixel camera, but the GPU has been replaced with a quad-core MALI instead SGX 6 series.

MediaTek’s first TD-LTE 4G chip-MT6590 will be at the end of trial production, and the final program of the fastest 4G commercially available may want to go next year.

MediaTek MTK official believes that this year is the first year of the tablet, before there is a lot of programs for the introduction of flat products, such as MT8377/8137, etc., compared to full-blown smart phone chips, flat panel processor’s performance seemed too “low key . ” But with the MT8389 and MT8125 and other products on-line, ASUS, ACER and other giants have introduced the use of MT8125 flat products, let alone close cooperation with MediaTek Lenovo, the Lenovo introduced this year A1000/A3000/S6000 are equipped with a flat MTK programs, such as Q3 tablet built specifically for MT8135 quad-core market, estimated to be more domestic products using the platform launch.

MT8135 used is based on Cortex-A15 + Cortex-A7’s big.LITTLE architecture, the use of micro-architecture techniques were different CPU core group (cluster), thereby taking into account the low power consumption and high performance, processing performance when necessary with High-performance Cortex-A15 performs processing when idle and load is low then use electricity more efficient Cortex-A7, is MTK tablet this year, heavy build “weapon.”

It can be predicted that next year will be an MediaTek out low-end market, towards the high-end market of the year, several new products are directed at the flagship terminal, covering the full range of real and official sources have pointed out that there will be more follow-up how high specification product launch, people look forward to.

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Throught the Snapdragon processor Qualcomm has become the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile processors. There’s not much that can compete with Qualcomm and NVidia may be referred to as one of them. But in the future, MediaTek would seem to be a serious competitor to Qualcomm.

The possibility can be seen from current MediaTek achievement. Taiwanese companies now control 50 percent of middle and lower segments. The achievement was going to increase in line with octa-core product features a built-in 4G LTE is aimed at the high end market.

One is MT6592 octa cores in the latest benchmark tests had results that were beat the Snapdragon 800. It also allows the smartphone manufacturers world to turn its attention to the latest MediaTek processor. Moreover, the price offered is also cheaper than the Snapdragon 800.

Potential market for MediaTek smartphone is very large, such as China and developing countries. Meanwhile, the European markets and the United States, the opportunity seems very small.

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This year seems consumers can obtain quad-core tablet or Android smartphone at a bargain price. This is due to start sprouting some quad-core processor manufactured by electronics company from China.

Today, mobile quad core with low price can be obtained in China. Most mobile-phone has around $160 USD price tag.

And, according to information from the analyst, the trend is likely to decline sharply this year. Even not rule out the possibility that this year consumers can find the phone or quad-core Android tablet selling for less than $100 USD.

However, the price is very cheap, and the specification of the quad core phones and tablet is certainly not too sensational. Especially in matters of RAM, where most low-end quad-core Android mobile phones and tablet will only offer 512MB of RAM.

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