MediaTek, a Taiwanese semiconductor company, has recently introduced the “world’s first True Octa-Core” processor for mobile devices.
To give you a quick recap, the term octa-core in mobile was recently made popular by the I9500 variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4 which uses an Exynos 5 Octa CPU. However, the Exynos 5 Octa can only run four cores at a time and not all eight. MediaTek’s new processor, on the other hand, utilizes all eight cores at the same time, tagging itself as a true octa-core solution.
The MediaTek True Octa-Core SoC promises to deliver increased performance and power-efficiency by allowing all eight cores to operate independently and flexibly.
Here are the following benefits of the True Octa-Core according to MediaTek:
Advanced web browsing: With the unique ability to allocate individual browser tabs to CPU cores, MediaTek True Octa-Core allows for a faster, more stable web browsing experiences.
Smoother user interfaces: With the ability to delegate user inputs to individual cores and render 3D effects more smoothly, the functionality and appearance of user interfaces in both applications and operating systems are significantly enhanced.
Superior gaming experiences: The advanced multi-threaded programming deployed in the MediaTek True Octa-Core, enables different sequences to be allocated to different cores, delivering enhanced video frame-rate processing and exceptionally low-latency gaming experiences.
Efficient video playback: When on decoding mode, the battery used for decoding HEVC (H.265) FHD video can be reduced by up to 18 percent compared to current quad-core solutions. While on display mode, MediaTek True Octa-Core provides users 20 percent more frames.
Official technical specs and date of arrival of MediaTek’s new CPU is yet to be released.
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Thanks for review, it was excellent and very informative.
thank you :)
Based on some benchmarks appeared online, it scored around 29K to 30K in Antutu which is higher than SG4.. Clocked between 1.7GHz to 2GHz
http://www.teknogadyet.com/2013/07/mediatek-true-octa-core-announced.html
very misleading result
per core performance is where it’s at.
We may never see the MEDIATEK’s true potential not unless an app/ game is specifically coded to use multi-cores
However, there is one game in the PLAY STORE that can make full use with all of its cores, it’s a chess game called DROIDFISH.
So what phones will we be seeing this on?
SONY recently announced their desire to use this SoC once it becomes available
We may even see ALCATEL & HUWAWEI follow suit since this looks very attractive for a mid-ranger.
Of course hindi mawawala ang mga local players natin na very Mediatek-dependent lol
No mention of what type/s of cores they’re using though. My guess is that they’re all Cortex A7, or even A5 cores to keep the battery usage in check. In that case, a Snapdragon 600/800 or Cortex A15 quad-core will probably still beat it handily.
most people will buy the idea that this SoC is better than samsung’s exynos.
kindly note that this is an octo/octa A7 core, which is way slower than A15 but power efficient. so how will this SoC match with quad A9s or quad Kraits of qualcomm then?
another thing, i haven’t heard of processes needing 8 threads, in fact, most applications use up to 2 threads only.
third, this isnt a big.little setup by arm, i wonder how they are going to implement both in kernel and hardware than cores can be turned on/off once at a time. the new Exynos 5420 i guess will be the first 4+4 big.little and can run all 8 cores together and other 2 modes as implied in the paper.
let’s just see what this soc is really capable of, not just in benchmarks (since they all use the 8 cores for test) but in real applications. but i do still believe that the recent exynos 5410 and snapdragons beat this soc.
yep. Single-threaded performance is all that matters, kaya naka score ng 30,000 sa AnTutu and Mediatek Octa it’s because it can fully utilize ALL of its cores whereas in a real-world scenario (like playing a game), dalawang core lang talaga ang gumagana, that’s because bawas sakit-ulo sa mga coders kung implement nila ang optimization sa 4-8 cores…. i doubt if it could even beat the Qualcomm S4 Pro.
HAHAHAHA it’s official na LUGI na ang Nvidia kase walang gustong bumili ng kanilang Tegra4 SoC
5 Way horse race na lang ngayon
Qualcomm, Exynos, Mediatek, Rockchip at iNtel
I know this isn’t the right place to ask my question but I’ve been googling can’t find the answer, im a tech noob.
I bought an htc one Australian factory unlocked with lte bands 1800/2600. I was told it should work with globes lte, I live in wackwack with great lte. My question is what is the manual configuration for globe lte since when I took a look at mobile data, it does not have any preset mobile configuration, hence I can inky WiFi call and text and zero mobile data. Please help me on manual data configuration, globe are very unhelpful. Thanks
I was told by HTC Philippines that if you bought it outside of the country, LTE will not work since it needs to be flashed with the local ROM first.
Thanks Abe, the 4g issue has been fixed just needed to restart phone, htc Philippines was wrong. I have full working htc one globe data plan now with full bar 4g. The reason I got this set was that it was 64gb local sets are limited to 32gb, too low for me with no sd card.
Thanks again Abe
Cool!
You probably meant to say “first true octa-core ARM-based/mobile CPU”, just putting it out there, sir.
hope this will eventually make those h.264 10-bit videos playable (not sure if S4’s quad-core can sustain either 720p or 1080p video playback of 10bit h.264 and on a dual-core device its either software playback which is choppy or hw playback but visual artifacts are present)
i wonder how will it perform on the efficiency to the battery…
The HUGE question is, how is the power consumption knowing it is running the 8 cores simultaneously? Kailangan ba ng 5000mAh battery for this to last a whole day on moderate use?
Parang AMD vs INTEL more core race lang, marami na bang apps or games na nakaka utilize ng alteast 2 cores.
The HUGE q
Wow asteg :D
wow
Hahaha! Eat that Samsung! Samsung’s octa-core isn’t really an octa-core…it’s just a dual quad-core processor.
MediaTek is the real king here!
Hopefully, this processor will make monster smartphones a possibility at a low price.
kindly read again the article. the article said the samsung s4 has used octa-core processors, but the eight cores are can only run four cores at a time and not all eight., so that means the sumsung s4 is using a 8 core processors. :)
Samsung’s Exynos Octa is actually an 8-core chip though only 4 is used at a time. I have read somewhere that early benchmarks show that Samsung Exynos Octa still beats this thing.
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I’ve read it, of course. I’m saying that Samsung’s Octa-core processor is a “dual quad-core processor” because the 8-core chips is separated into two parts. The first 4 cores are for power-saving more while the last 4 cores are for performance mode. Hence, I call it a “dual quad-core processor” because the eight cores are not in the same place…they’re separated into two parts.
Hope you’ll get what I meant about the “dual quad-core processor” I just said.
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I’d also like to say that Samsung’s “Little.Big architecture” is just a big gimmick to fool consumers about their 8-core processor. Samsung’s 8-core processor isn’t really an octa-core because the 8-cores aren’t on the same processor die. If you were to take a look at the design specs of Samsung’s so called “octa-core”, it’ll remind you how Intel managed to made their first dual-core processor which isn’t a true dual core processor, the Intel Pentium D. Intel’s first dual-core processor is just a processor with two Pentium 4 CPUs on the same package…but surprisingly, they can perform simultaneously unlike Samsung’s 8-core crap where only 4-cores can only work depending on the workload.