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MediaTek introduces world’s first True Octa-Core CPU

MediaTek, a Taiwanese semiconductor company, has recently introduced the “world’s first True Octa-Core” processor for mobile devices.

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To give you a quick recap, the term octa-core in mobile was recently made popular by the I9500 variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4 which uses an Exynos 5 Octa CPU. However, the Exynos 5 Octa can only run four cores at a time and not all eight. MediaTek’s new processor, on the other hand, utilizes all eight cores at the same time, tagging itself as a true octa-core solution.

The MediaTek True Octa-Core SoC promises to deliver increased performance and power-efficiency by allowing all eight cores to operate independently and flexibly.

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Here are the following benefits of the True Octa-Core according to MediaTek:

Advanced web browsing: With the unique ability to allocate individual browser tabs to CPU cores, MediaTek True Octa-Core allows for a faster, more stable web browsing experiences.

Smoother user interfaces: With the ability to delegate user inputs to individual cores and render 3D effects more smoothly, the functionality and appearance of user interfaces in both applications and operating systems are significantly enhanced.

Superior gaming experiences: The advanced multi-threaded programming deployed in the MediaTek True Octa-Core, enables different sequences to be allocated to different cores, delivering enhanced video frame-rate processing and exceptionally low-latency gaming experiences.

Efficient video playback: When on decoding mode, the battery used for decoding HEVC (H.265) FHD video can be reduced by up to 18 percent compared to current quad-core solutions. While on display mode, MediaTek True Octa-Core provides users 20 percent more frames.

Official technical specs and date of arrival of MediaTek’s new CPU is yet to be released.

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26 Comments

sir cheap says:

11 years ago

Hahaha! Eat that Samsung! Samsung’s octa-core isn’t really an octa-core…it’s just a dual quad-core processor.
MediaTek is the real king here!

Hopefully, this processor will make monster smartphones a possibility at a low price.
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paeng macho says:

11 years ago

wow
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franz says:

11 years ago

Wow asteg :D
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RafaeL says:

11 years ago

The HUGE q
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dan says:

11 years ago

Parang AMD vs INTEL more core race lang, marami na bang apps or games na nakaka utilize ng alteast 2 cores.
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RafaeL says:

11 years ago

The HUGE question is, how is the power consumption knowing it is running the 8 cores simultaneously? Kailangan ba ng 5000mAh battery for this to last a whole day on moderate use?
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... says:

11 years ago

i wonder how will it perform on the efficiency to the battery…
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Name: IC DeaDPiPoL says:

11 years ago

hope this will eventually make those h.264 10-bit videos playable (not sure if S4’s quad-core can sustain either 720p or 1080p video playback of 10bit h.264 and on a dual-core device its either software playback which is choppy or hw playback but visual artifacts are present)
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auron says:

11 years ago

You probably meant to say “first true octa-core ARM-based/mobile CPU”, just putting it out there, sir.
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dennis says:

11 years ago

I know this isn’t the right place to ask my question but I’ve been googling can’t find the answer, im a tech noob.
I bought an htc one Australian factory unlocked with lte bands 1800/2600. I was told it should work with globes lte, I live in wackwack with great lte. My question is what is the manual configuration for globe lte since when I took a look at mobile data, it does not have any preset mobile configuration, hence I can inky WiFi call and text and zero mobile data. Please help me on manual data configuration, globe are very unhelpful. Thanks
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abuzalzal says:

11 years ago

HAHAHAHA it’s official na LUGI na ang Nvidia kase walang gustong bumili ng kanilang Tegra4 SoC

5 Way horse race na lang ngayon

Qualcomm, Exynos, Mediatek, Rockchip at iNtel
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analog says:

11 years ago

most people will buy the idea that this SoC is better than samsung’s exynos.
kindly note that this is an octo/octa A7 core, which is way slower than A15 but power efficient. so how will this SoC match with quad A9s or quad Kraits of qualcomm then?

another thing, i haven’t heard of processes needing 8 threads, in fact, most applications use up to 2 threads only.

third, this isnt a big.little setup by arm, i wonder how they are going to implement both in kernel and hardware than cores can be turned on/off once at a time. the new Exynos 5420 i guess will be the first 4+4 big.little and can run all 8 cores together and other 2 modes as implied in the paper.

let’s just see what this soc is really capable of, not just in benchmarks (since they all use the 8 cores for test) but in real applications. but i do still believe that the recent exynos 5410 and snapdragons beat this soc.
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HK-47 says:

11 years ago

No mention of what type/s of cores they’re using though. My guess is that they’re all Cortex A7, or even A5 cores to keep the battery usage in check. In that case, a Snapdragon 600/800 or Cortex A15 quad-core will probably still beat it handily.
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Justin says:

11 years ago

So what phones will we be seeing this on?
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hayds says:

11 years ago

Based on some benchmarks appeared online, it scored around 29K to 30K in Antutu which is higher than SG4.. Clocked between 1.7GHz to 2GHz

http://www.teknogadyet.com/2013/07/mediatek-true-octa-core-announced.html
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ultras says:

11 years ago

Thanks for review, it was excellent and very informative.
thank you :)
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