Mediatek has announced its latest flagship processor yet – the Mediatek Helio X30. It is the successor to the similar Deca-Core (10-Core) Helio X20 and Helio X25, and uses the same tri-cluster design on both models. First set of devices with the Helio X30 SoC onboard will arrive at some point in 2017.
Built using Taiwan Semiconductor Corp (TSMC) 10nm FinFET process, the Mediatek Helio X30 is Mediatek’s answer to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (and Snapdragon 821).
It contains ten CPU cores: 4 x Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.8GHz for the toughest of tasks, 4 x Cortex A53 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and the last 2 x Cortex A35 cores clocked at 2.0GHz for battery efficiency and low-intensity tasks.
The chipset is coupled with a Quad-Core PowerVR 7XT GPU, which happens to be to the series used in current iPads and iPhones; and is well suited for VR enabled devices.
It supports as much as 8GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 4G LTE Cat. 12 networks and three carrier aggregation and up to 40MP camera sensors. The Mediatek Helio X30 also supports 16MP cameras at up to 60 fps video, 8MP cameras at up to 120 fps and the fast UFS 2.1 storage.
