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Mediatek Helio P90 | PowerVR GM9446 | 6.01" | 125 g
The Mediatek Helio P90 is an upper mainstream ARM SoC for smartphones (mainly Android based) that was introduced in 2019. It is manufactured in a 12 nm FinFET (12FFC) process and is equipped with 2x big ARM Cortex-A75 cores (2.2 GHz max.) and 6x small and power efficient ARM Cortex-A55 cores (2 GHz max.) in two clusters (bigLITTLE). The processor also integrates a Cat-12 (600 Mbps DL) / Cat-13 (150 Mbps UL) LTE Modem (4G), a PowerVR GM 9446 GPU, and ISP for 64 MP photos and 4K videorecording, and a AI Processing Unit with a theoretical performance of 1165 Giga-Multiply-Adds per second. The memory controller on the die supports dual-channel LPDDR4x-1866 (8 GB max.) and flash memory can be connected by UFS 2.1.
The CPU performance should be slightly below a Snapdragon 730 (e.g. in the Reno2 Z in our benchmarks) and therefore in the upper middle-class of 2019 smartphones.
Series | Mediatek Mediatek | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Codename | Cortex-A75 / A55 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series: Mediatek Cortex-A75 / A55
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Clock Rate | 2200 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturing Technology | 12 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features | 4x ARM Cortex-A75, 4x ARM Cortex-A55, LPDDR4x-1866 Dual Channel, UFS 2.1, LTE Cat-12 DL/ Cat-13 UL, Wi-Fi 5, BT 5.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
GPU | PowerVR GM9446 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 Bit | 64 Bit support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | ARM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Announcement Date | 12/13/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product Link (external) | www.mediatek.com |
Performance Rating - Percent | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 | |
Oppo Reno2 Z | |
Average Mediatek Helio P90 | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 -2! | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 |
Geekbench 5.5 | |
Single-Core | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 (542 - 548, n=2) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 | |
Oppo Reno2 Z | |
Average Mediatek Helio P90 (407 - 416, n=3) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 (392 - 394, n=2) | |
Multi-Core | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 (1647 - 1780, n=2) | |
Oppo Reno2 Z | |
Average Mediatek Helio P90 (1495 - 1534, n=3) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 (1448 - 1508, n=2) |
PCMark for Android - Work 2.0 performance score | |
Oppo Reno2 Z | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (7360 - 9868, n=27) | |
Average Mediatek Helio P90 (7129 - 9654, n=3) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 (7177 - 7913, n=4) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 (6832 - 8276, n=2) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 (6453 - 7460, n=6) |
AnTuTu v8 - CPU | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 | |
Oppo Reno2 Z | |
Average Mediatek Helio P90 | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 (80001 - 81136, n=2) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 (67712 - 68948, n=2) |
3DMark | |
2560x1440 Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 (2827 - 3349, n=4) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (2185 - 3764, n=28) | |
Oppo Reno2 Z | |
Average Mediatek Helio P90 (2218 - 2784, n=3) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 (1840 - 2720, n=6) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 (1982 - 2506, n=2) | |
1280x720 offscreen Ice Storm Unlimited Physics | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (15614 - 37475, n=27) | |
Oppo Reno2 Z | |
Average Mediatek Helio P90 (21123 - 23188, n=2) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 (19389 - 21898, n=4) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 (13595 - 18181, n=6) | |
Average Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 (13686 - 13698, n=2) |
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