Mediatek MT6592

The MediaTek MT6592 is a mid-range 28 nm SoC for Android smartphones and tablets. It was announced near the end of 2013 and is manufactured in 28 nm. It includes 8 Cortex-A7 processor cores that are typically clocked up to 1.7 - 2.0 GHz. Furthermore, the SoC integrates an ARM Mali-450 GPU at 700 MHz, WLAN, a video decoder for up to 4K content, a LPDDR3 memory controller at 666 MHz, and a 2G/3G (UMTS/HSPA+) radio.

Although the MT6592 offers eight relatively high clocked CPU cores compared to other SoCs, its performance in day-to-day usage is a bit lower, as the Cortex-A7 cores offer slower performance per clock and only a few apps are able to make use of all 8 cores simultaneously. Modern dual-core (e.g., Apple A7) or quad-core (e.g., Cortex A15 or Snapdragon 800) SoCs can be clearly faster in everyday scenarios.

The integrated ARM Mali-450 MP4 GPU offers 4 graphics clusters that are clocked at a high 700 MHz. However, the performance of the GPU is somewhat below that of a Tegra 4 or Adreno 320. Also like the Nvidia rival, the Mali-450 lacks support for OpenGL ES 3.0.

Codename	Cortex-A7
Series	Mediatek
Series: Mediatek Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT6592 « 1.7 GHz 8 / 8  Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT8127 1.5 GHz 4 / 4  Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT6582M 1.3 GHz 4 / 4  Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT6582 1.3 GHz 4 / 4  Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT8121 1.3 GHz 4 / 4  Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT8321 1.3 GHz 4 / 4  Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT8125 1.2 GHz 4 / 4  Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT6589 1.2 GHz 4 / 4  Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT6580M 1.3 GHz 4 / 4  Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT8389 1.2 GHz 4 / 4  Cortex-A7 Mediatek MT6589T 1.5 GHz 4 / 4  Cortex-A7 MediaTek MT6572 1.2 GHz 2 / 2  Cortex-A7
Clock Rate	1700 - 2000 MHz
Level 1 Cache	512 KB
Level 2 Cache	1 MB
Number of Cores / Threads	8 / 8
Manufacturing Technology	28 nm
Features	UMTS/HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, WiFi (802.11n), 666 MHz LPDDR3, 16 MP Camera ISP, 4K Video Encoder, H.265, GPS, NFC, ARM Mali-450 MP4 @ 700 MHz
GPU	ARM Mali-450 MP4 (700 MHz)
Architecture	ARM
Announcement Date	11/20/2013
Product Link (external)	www.mediatek.com

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