Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 SoC might have finally met its match in the form of the octa-core Mediatek MT6592.
Mediatek has been cropping up in headlines concerning their next generation processors for the past few days, but this latests news/leak is by far the most exciting we have seen so far!
The image above comes from an internal Mediatek slide show where which claims that the newMT6592 is capable of reaching Antutu scores of 29,600! That’s edging in to Snapdragon 800 territory! What we find even more interesting (and exciting) though is the fact the benchmarks were taken from a 1.7Ghz CPU and the MT6592 is capable of running at a full 2Ghz!
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Mediatek will launch the MT65928-core processor along with a few other new chips later this year. For more Mediatek details take a look at the 2013-14 Mediatek roadmap here.
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Don’t be fooled by numbers. It’s coming near Snapdragon in synthetic benchmarks, but not in real-world performance.
People were saying the exact opposite when the MTK6589 procesaor came around. It was nice and snappy on HD resolution, but reviewers said it was downright “HORRIBLE” because the the benchmark scores weren’t as good as higher end chips. Let’s face it, recent MTK chips (MTK6589T) are really nice and speedy chips, if they’re benchmark scores were higher they would be selling like hot cakes. It’s you who shouldn’t be fooled right now, because like it or not, MediaTek is slowly growing stronger and stronger, and they eventually will be able to challenge the likes of Qualcomm for best chip maker.
yes.. even i like mediatek chipsets
How is that the exact opposite? You repeated my statement by saying that benchmark scores don’t correspond to real world performance. You can make a 32 core processor which scores 99999 on Antutu, yet it won’t be faster than a 4 core processor in everyday use.
You mentioned it scores high in benchmarks but sucks in real world performance.
He said most experts noted differently, that it scored well in real world performance but sucked in benchmarks.
He then proceeded to point out that, in the case of the experts being right, this means its real world performance is way beyond that of a Qualcomm at 29,600.
Al in all, he shot down what you said. You were wrong on so many levels.
Synthetic benchmarks which linearly scale with the number of cores do not correspond to real world performance. 4 fast cores are better than 8 slow cores. This is why MediaTek is inferior to Qualcomm.
To add: There has not been a disparity between benchmark scores and real world performance of the MTK6589. The benchmarks were OK, and it performed OK. I don’t know who you are referring to when you speak of “most experts” who supposedly share a different opinion.
You are right, but this chip is different. it is an 8-core variant, meaning each process thread only get’s half of the cpu horsepower as it would on a typical 4-core. The jury is still out on this one, but the results are really amazing, anyone would have to admit.
You have Qualcomm chip based phone and you *dislike* to believe that there are chips going to defeat your precious chip ???????
Let’s see which phone will be the first user of Mediatek 8 core!! good news.
Even on desktop softwares still struggle to use more than 2 core efficiently.
4 strong cores >>> 8 weak cores clumped together.
That said, those 8 cores are probably more than enough for handphone’s app individually. If it means better battery life I’d pick it over 4 strong power hungry cores.