MediaTek Helio P90 SoC With Dual 4G, 48MP Camera Support Is Here

Chipmaker MediaTekannounced the Helio P70SoC which offers a 10-15% boost over the P60 chipset. And now, the company has announced a more powerful SoC – Helio P90 – with afaster CPU, better AI capabilitiesand support for Google Lens as well as ARCore.

The flagship Helio P90 SoC is a notable upgrade over the P70 and isoptimized for better hardware, improved camera, and enhanced connectivity. Compared to the P70, the Helio P90 is better suited for a lower power consumption.

To start off, the Helio P90 features two A75 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and six A55 cores at 2.0GHz and this shift from 4+4 configuration to 2+6 is apparently inspired bySnapdragon 670and 710aimed at more power-efficient computing. This might result in slightly lower multi-core performance but the more powerful GPU should prevent that from impacting the general gaming performance.

Instead of an ARM Mali GPU as we saw on the earlier MediaTek SoCs, Helio P90 comes with PowerVR GM 9446 clocked at 970MHz. This provides improved performance over the earlier chipsets.

On the connectivity front,Helio P90now supports Cat 12 4G LTE and this doubles thepeak download speed to 600Mbps. Moreover, the chipset alsosupports Dual 4G connectivity, so we can expect the feature coming to mid-range devices soon. Additionally, the Bluetooth version has been upgraded to 5.0.

In terms of the camera performance, the SoC nowsupports up to 48-megapixel on a single camera or 24MP+16MP for a dual camerasetup. Since the Helio P90 is most likely to be limited to mid-range devices, there isno support for triple cameras yet. Further, the improved image signal processing will provide for better edge detection in portrait shots.

MediaTek has reportedly already begun the producing the Helio P90 chips on a 12nm process and we can expect thefirst batch of smartphones powered by the SoC by the first quarter of 2019.

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