First Helios X30 benchmarks appear

[ScratchCat]

Source:https://www.chinamobilemag.de/news/erstes-helio-x30-antutu-ergebnis.html

https://www.mediatek.com/products/smartphones/mediatek-helio-x30

 

After months of waiting, and with the release of the Meizu pro 7 we finally get a taste of the performance the latest flagship chip from Mediatek. This SoC is vital for Mediatek if they want to compete among the top tire chips offered by Qualcomm,Hisilicon and others.

For quite a while now devices based on Mediatek components have been lagging behind their competitor counterparts, either in performance (especially 3D) or thermal/power consumption. The Helios X20 series had notably poor efficiency and had many bugs with 3D games, leading to stuttering even on low settings.

The latest chips from Mediatek such as the P25 now offer much improved performance and power efficiency, rivalling the snapdragon 625.

 

The Helios X30 offers 10 cores on a 10 nm process.

 

Specs:

2 High performance A73 cores at 2.6 GHz

4 medium performance A53 cores at 2.2 GHz

4 low power A35 cores at 1.9 GHz

PowerVR 7XTP-MT4 at 850MHz

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MediaTek Helio X30 increases performance by up to 35% and saves power by up to 50% over the MediaTek Helio X20

The GPU is a massive upgrade over the previous generation.

 

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The fully customized IMG PowerVR 7XTP-MT4 @ 850MHz is designed for lowest power usage while still delivering incredible performance. It saves up to 60% power versus while increasing performance by up to 2.4 times compared to the Helio X20

 

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Die Gesamtpunktzahl des Helio X30 basierten Meizu Pro 7 beträgt 141.982 Punkte. Damit liegt der Helio X30 fast gleich auf mit einem Snapdragon 821. Unsere Erwartungen an das neue Flaggschiff von Mediatek sind damit erfüllt. Mediatek verkleinert die Lücke zu Qualcomm deutlich, schafft es aber natürlich nicht ganz aufzuschließen oder gar an Qualcomm vorbeizuziehen.

Gist: the total points in antutu is 141.982 which is almost a snapdragon 821. This was more than expected. Mediatek has managed to close the gap with Qualcomm greatly, yet doesn't match or exceed Qualcomm.

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[Nena Trinity]

That looks cool but I just bought the Nokia 3! :<

[dizmo]

Eh, synthetic benchmarks are lame. Real world performance is what matters. I'd be a lot more curious about how it's battery life is. 

[suicidalfranco]

but how does helios when it comes to update their drivers for older chips on newer versions of android? are they like qualcomm in that front?

[GatioH]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

Eh, synthetic benchmarks are lame. Real world performance is what matters. I'd be a lot more curious about how it's battery life is. 

for real^

all I care about (mobile chip wise) is battery life as long as the device isn’t sluggish

[Coaxialgamer]

11 hours ago, dizmo said:

Eh, synthetic benchmarks are lame. Real world performance is what matters. I'd be a lot more curious about how it's battery life is. 

Theoretically, those a35's should help to improve it during light use vs even an a53

[TheGunzPT]

I just.. can't.

 

Mediatek problem is the way they handle the SDKs and the lack of support in gaming in general on Android.

 

My girlfriend has a Wiko phone and it runs the latest Mediatek chip and that thing just plain sucks. I rooted and digged deeper and man that core management really sucks, at some point during the day even when the phone was on idle the bloody CPU had all 10 cores online even thou there were only basic Android background stuff going.

 

I hope they can have better support for devs in future and get better drivers rolling (as if..)