No matter how careful a tech company is there is no guarantee that your latest product will remain a secret until launch. This is exactly what Mediatek learned this weekend when full specifications of the MT6592 and MT6588 processors were posted online.
While it is no secrecy that the 8-coreMT6592 and quad-core MT6588 would be officially unveiled on 20th November in Shenzhen, complete specifications of each have remained elusive up until this weekend.
Quad-core Mediatek MT6588 specifications
Mediatek have had a stellar year thanks to the quad-core MT6589 range of processors, and although the current quad-core chips remain very good they will no longer remain king of the quad-core hill. The new MT6588 chipset is built-on a 28nm Cortex A7 architecture and available at speeds for up to 1.7Ghz. Faster CPU speed is backed up be an update in graphics performance as the MT6588 gets a Mali450-mp4 GPU running at 600mhz. Other than added support for HEVC and VP9 video codecs the rest of the specs are similar to the current MT6589(T) including support for 1920 x 1080 displays, 13 mega-pixel cameras, and integrated WIFI, Bluetooth,FM radio and GPS.
8-core Mediatek MT6592 full specifications
For most phone users a quad-core processor is going to provide ample performance, but for those who want the best of the best Mediatek will also be offering the 8-coreMT6592 chipset. Again, the 8-core chip is base on 28nm architecture but will be offered in either 1.7Ghz or 2.0Ghz options. The flagship 8-core chip will also have a speedier 700mhz Mali450-mp4 GPU and the same added video codecs.
When can we expect 8-core Mediatek phones?
We have already seen the officially unveiling of the Bird Snapdragon XL 8-core phone (although a sales date has not been announced) and we have seen leaks that suggest Zopo, Mlais, Xiaocai, UMi, Jiayu and possible Sony also have MT6592 phones almost ready to launch.
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With development already underway for months and an official announcement on 20th November, we could see the first 8-core Mediatek Chinese phones on sale before the end of the year!
I don’t get this multi-core thing. So if i open my calendar app then open my gallery app will each one of those run in their own dedicated core? Is that how its suppossed to work?
No, think smaller.
All processors have the most basic instructions that they can run. Each apps, or programs are written in a computing language, and is then translated to this basic language, called compiling.
If a processor is multi cored, or more accurately multi threaded, it can run several of these basic instructions at the same time, making the overall program run faster.
For the end user like us, the actual performance increase of increased numbers of processing threads is too complicated to gauge: various overhead times, task scheduling, ISA, etc. So far, the MediaTek 8-core processor scored pretty good in most benchmarks, so I guess that’s an improvement.
Cores work with load,so if you open calendar and gallery you’ll possibly only use one core,that’s light tasks.When you open modern combat too in high graphics,then another 5 cores come in to help,heavy task. It also depends how an app is written. If the app can’t “see” there are 8 cores it’ll stick to the number it can utilise,which usually is 2(for poorly optimised apps or light ones like gallery).
so multi-cores only benefit games? also, what commonly used app in android utilizes more than two cores?
Ah…
No.
Most applications will benefit from the multi-core, to a varying degree. Even developers that did not write multi-thread optimized app-highly unusual, considering Java have a very “good” thread support-, the JVM and the compiler will optimize it anyway, to a certain degree.