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It seems one of the next MediaTek chip is ready for launch. According to those leaks, this SoC has the highest frequency ever on a MediaTek chip, it is clocked at 1.7 Ghz alongside a Mali 450.

Lets break this into sections, so you would understand what it is all about.

1) GPU : ARM Mali 450

This is the evolution of the Mali 400 which can be found in several chips such as Exynos 4xxx equipping the Samsung Galaxy S2 and S3 or in Rockchip SoC as well.
The Mali 400 could support up to 4 cores : Mali 400 MP4.
According to ARM, the Mali 450 is two times more powerful than the 400 running Open GL 2.0 when running at the same frequency and supports up to 8 cores but a 6 cores version can be built as well.
The standard frequency of Mali 450 core is set to run at 250 MHz.
The Mali 450 should come with a dedicated video decoder unit which is able to read video up to 4K resolution.
The main downside of the Mali 450 resides in the fact that it doesnt support Open CL or Open GL 3.0.

2) CPU : Quad Core 1.7 GHz

While the software does indeed read Quad-Core, it might be the octo-cores MT6592 chip. It means, in normal use, only 4 cores are detected at the time or the software recognize the bit.LITTLE design as only a 4 cores SoC.

3) The Score : over 25 000


The benchmark runs on a 720p device with 1 GB Ram and manages to score over 25 000, somewhat around the Mi 2S with 1 GB less RAM. The chip might be bit more powerful than the Snapdragon S600 without reaching S800 territory. Overall, if the promises are kept performances wise, it should be a true mid range SoC killer way better than what the good MT6589T already is.

Source : MTKsj