MediaTek's Li Yanji: Helio G90T is born for gaming, outperforming Snapdragon 730G

MediaTek held a new product and technology conference in Shanghai today with the theme of "Gaming Chip Awakens Combat Power", launching the first mobile phone chip Helio G90 series and chip-level game optimization engine technology MediaTek HyperEngine, which was born for gaming. This technology optimizes four aspects, including game network latency, control, image quality, and load regulation, to bring mobile phone users a fully upgraded gaming experience. The Helio G90T in the series of products has become the world's first chip to obtain the German Rhine TÜV mobile network game experience certification, supporting leading technologies such as 90Hz screen refresh rate, 64-megapixel camera ultra-high-definition photography, and dual-keyword voice wake-up.

Why make a gaming phone?

Dr. Yen-Chi Lee, Associate Manager of MediaTek's Wireless Communications Business Unit, said that currently there are more than 2.2 billion people around the world using mobile phones to play games. Currently, games/shopping/social networking have become the three main applications of mobile phones. Asia is currently the most important market for mobile games in the world, accounting for 64% of the world's total mobile game revenue.

Li Yanji reviewed the evolution of mobile games, from the Snake in the 2G era to the single-player games on the touch screen in the 3G era, and then to the porting of large-scale arcade games in the 4G era, and multiplayer online battle platforms, which have pushed up the performance requirements of mobile phone systems. "Including MOBA and chicken-eating games, the requirements for image quality and fluency are the highest, requiring chip manufacturers to improve the CPU, GPU and system performance, and also pay attention to the networking experience including 4G and WiFi," said Li Yanji.

For this reason, MediaTek has been working hard to create the G90T, a platform that greatly enhances the gaming experience, since last year. The platform includes the Helio G90 series and the chip-level game optimization engine technology MediaTek HyperEngine.

Compared with G90, what hardware improvements have been made to G90T?

The CPU still uses a dual-core Cortex-A76 + six-core CortexA55, but the maximum main frequency has been increased from 2.0GHz to 2.05GHz.

The GPU is increased from G76 MC4 720MHz to 800MHz, with a performance improvement of 11%.

The memory is increased from 8GB LPDDR4x to 10GB.

The camera has been upgraded from 48MP direct output/triple camera to 64MP direct output/quadruple camera.

Display support changes from Full-HD+ 21:9 60Hz full screen to 90Hz.

Human-computer interaction has been upgraded from 1 wake-up word to 2 wake-up words.

Specific manifestations of measured performance improvement

MediaTek has done a lot of actual tests and has made many enhancements compared to Snapdragon 730, such as a 10% improvement in GeekBench 4.1 CPU performance evaluation and a score of over 220,000 on AnTuTu. What's even more rare is the actual game cold start time. Compared to 730, the mainstream time has been reduced by more than 10%.

In terms of GPU, the quad-core G76 has a 30% improvement over the previous generation G72. Whether it is GFX 3.0 Manhattan, GF4.0 Car Chase, Antutu 3D, or 3D Mark's Vulkan performance, there is a 26% to 13% performance improvement over the 730.

As for actual game testing, mainstream top games can reach close to 60 frames per second.

Li Yanji took Knives Out as an example, and compared with Snapdragon 730, it can almost always be in full frame state.

The G90T series products released by MediaTek this time have processor performance that almost completely surpasses the Snapdragon 730. In the thousand-yuan machine market, especially the thousand-yuan gaming machine market, it is bound to set off a new round of machine replacement.