They presented it last July and, since then, they have had to endure criticism and bad milk from the competition as Qualcomm. Despite this, in MediaTek they have not given up in their efforts and have continued to develop the first 'real' eight-core processor. In fact, a recent leak shows us MediaTek MT6592 integrated into the motherboard of a smartphone, so the arrival of the 'true' Octa-Core chipset It could be closer than we thought.
Admit that Samsung was the first producer to launch an eight-core chipset with its 5 Exynos Octa. In the same way, we must agree that the operation of these processors from the South Korean firm is not close to what we could expect from a chipset of such characteristics, since they areOnly four of its eight cores are active at the same time - although they have already announced a substantial change in this regard in the new evolution of Exynos -. Therefore, and considering how advanced her project is, everything seems to indicate that it will be the Taiwanese MediaTek the first to launch eight-core processors with true simultaneous operation.
MediaTek Octa-Core: Better Energy Efficiency Than Power?
Regarding the processor MT6592 that you have already been able to witness in the image that accompanies these lines, has a clock speed of two gigahertz and it will be accompanied by a graphics processor - GPU - Quad-core Mali. Returning to the photograph itself, the 'V' that we can see printed on the surface of the chipset could be due to the fact that it is a developer version.
Still accepting the promise of MediaTek what is this MT6592 is the first 'real' Octa-Core in which its eight cores can work simultaneously, it should be noted that is based on the ARM Cortex-A7 which Samsung he uses in his 5 Exynos Octa for its four low-performance and power-consuming cores.
Therefore, everything seems to indicate that MediaTek's intention with its eight-core chipset is not to compete with power of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 or nvidia tegra 4s - even in the case of quad-core processors -, but outplay them with decent performance and much lower energy consumption, which can translate into greater autonomy for smartphones. How about? Would you sacrifice a little power in exchange for a longer battery life on your smartphone or tablet?
Source: MTKsj Via: UnwiredView