Ever since the Redmi Note 8 / Pro phones were announced, there has been much speculation about what processor would power them. But after the announcement, MediaTek has already blown the lid off in a Weibo post.
Since then a tsunami of posts has flooded the internet, most of them negative, regretful or angry. The MTK SoC has never been a popular solution in Xiaomi/Redmi phones, neither its performance nor its support has never been normal. But today, Lu Weibing, the head of Redmi, started a series of posts on Weibo, explaining why the MediaTek helio G90T SoC became a good choice in defense of the SoC.
The performance of the G90T is not aimed at the high end of the range compared to Snapdragon processors, but at the average, which is good for everything. It does perform well among the cheaper solutions currently in vogue, positioned well between the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 and HiSilicon Kirin 810 for its price.
The G90T SoC uses the latest and fastest ARM Cortex-A76 architecture, which the manufacturer claims is equivalent to the performance of a notebook. The A76 is currently only found in flagship devices, that is, those with MTK/HiSilicon SoCs, not in devices supplied by competing chip vendors.
The same core is also used in the HiSilicon Kirin 980 and 810 SoCs owned by Huawei, as well as the lower clock speed Cortex-A55 processor core. There is a slight performance difference between the Kirin 810 and the G90T, as the 810's A76 core spins at 2.27 GHz, while the G90T's is at 2.05 GHz.
The Redmi Note 8 Pro's gaming performance is powered by the Mali-G76 GPU, an integral part of the Kirin 980, and HyperEngine + Game Turbo 2.0, which delivers lower power and a better experience. The G76 offers 30% better performance than its predecessor, the G72. The Kirin 810 offers mid-range performance using only the G52 GPU core, but these are just numbers, the real benchmarking will be revealed in real tests after release!
The MediaTek HyperEngine is perfectly targeted at e-sport fans, with the quad-core G76 GPU scoring over 222.222, which is not the highest on the list, or even close, but still promises a stable 60FPS for some games. It supports intelligent network prediction, dual WiFi connection, call and internet concurrency, fast and accurate touchscreen response, HDR10 standard, 10bit colour depth and Rec.2020 colour gamut, etc. With intelligent resource management, CPU, GPU and memory access and control is faster, and with AI serving the performance is more harmonious, games don't lag. Meanwhile, power consumption is 23% less than the competition.
The Redmi Note 8 will be powered by MTK G90, while the Redmi Note 8 Pro will be powered by MTK G90T. The difference between the two is negligible, but what's less in the G90 will be cheaper than the Note Pro. The G90T has a higher clock speed, higher performance, but supports a 64MP camera module, so the regular Note 8 will only come with a 48MP camera. The Pro can handle a max of 10GB of memory, it's just not yet revealed how this will be utilised, while its little brother could have a max of 8GB of memory. What's new for screen management is the use of high frequency, for smoother motion graphics, and of course most of all for gaming.
A melegedéssel sem lesz probléma, a Redmi Note 8 pro telefon is megkapja az eddig nagy teljesítményű telefonokban használt, rézcsöves folyadékhűtést, ami nem csak a processzort, hanem a töltő chipet és az akkumulátort is ellátja hűtéssel. Az eddigi tesztek alapján a folyadékhűtés akár 4-6 °C hőmérséklet csökkenést is eredményezhet, csak az nem derült ki, hogy mennyiből…
Redmi Note 8 / Pro info will be shared continuously until the release, as soon as we know more, we'll be right back!
