Since the start of the Meizu MX4 Pro rumours, we have been banking on a device with a Samsung Exynos 5433 chip, but with less than a week to go Li Nan says that’s a no go!
Meizu have a long partnership with Samsung which has meant that every Meizu phone (bar the MX4) has been launched with the latest Samsung processor. The latest and greatest Sammy chip is the octacore 5433 and that’s what we were expecting, well until today at least.
Meizu boss Li Nan took to Weibo today with the interesting, disappointing and intriguing post that the MX4 Pro won’t have a Samsung Exynos 5433 SoC and won’t be using a Mediatek MT6795 either!
So which processor are Meizu going to be shipping the MX4 Pro with? Well our minds automatically spring to the possibility of a Qualcomm processor, either a Snapdragon 801 or 805, but would Meizu really stop working with Samsung?
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Another possibility is that Meizu would be using the Samsung Exynos 5430 chipset, which would give the MX4 Pro 2K display support (confirmed this morning) and Cat 6 LTE at 300Mbps.
What do you guys think Meizu will be using in the Meizu MX4 Pro?
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I hope they stop working with Samsung processors… They should either develop their own processor ( like xiaomi or apple).
Intel ???
Qualcomm ? or Huawei Kirin …. There’s also Intel but they don’t have anything competitive right now.
Maybe nvidia?
Guess it’s the 5430, it would provide better performance then the 6595, on paper. As the a15 provides better performance to the mid level a17,
wasn’t A17 built pretty much as a replacement for A15? It has better power efficiency at least
Highly doubt meizu would use another a17chip on the pro. It is possible meizu may stick to the same 6595soc with different clock speeds.
the 6595 uses A17 cores. If they use MT6595 they’ll have to use A17. And unless they’ve worked with MediaTek to clock it higher that would be impossible too, because the 6595 that the MX4 uses has the highest available clock speeds for the 6595 as far as I know.
You are right about A17 offers same performance as A15 with better power efficiency. MT6595’s single core performance seems better than even Snapdragon 805 and any Exynos except 5433 according to Geekbench results.
On the other hand MX4 equipped with standard MT6595 clocked to 2.2GHz. There will be a turbo edition clocked to 2.5GHz with same GPU, if Mediatek didn’t abandon it. Lenovo and Zopo uses 2GHz variant with weaker GPU.
64-bit MT6795 with faster GPU should be released next month so maybe nobody will be interested in MT6595T.
Well not much of a upgrade, the 6595 preforms at that level already
Only advantage an Exynos 5430 or 5420 would be graphics, on processing power MT6595 is miles ahead. But why would they use MT6595 again? It’d make the only difference be a fingerprint scanner and higher-res screen. I couldn’t think why they would not use the 5433.
Maybe Samsung denied to provide their best SoC. It’s only 64-bit capable high end SoC yet and it’s give Note 4 an edge.