(Pocket-lint) – MediaTek’s newly-announced Dimensity 1080 smartphone chipset guarantees to carry improved efficiency and higher battery life to 5G-equipped smartphones.
The Dimensity 1080 chipset comes with “a number of superior options” which, MediaTek’s deputy common supervisor, CH Chen, claims will “problem expectations about what a 5G smartphone can do”. After all, that is largely advertising communicate, however it all boils all the way down to a concentrate on pace and battery life.
That begins with the upgraded octa-core CPU sporting two Arm Cortex-A78 cores working at as much as 2.6GHz. Past that, an Arm Mali-G68 GPU guarantees “quicker efficiency whether or not customers are gaming, streaming, or shopping”. The entire chipset runs on a 6nm design, too, which is what MediaTek factors to when discussing battery life enhancements thanks to higher power effectivity.
Past that, MediaTek says its new chipset will help most important cameras all the best way as much as 200-megapixels, with hadware-accelerated HDR video help additionally checked off. Assist for sub-6GHz 5G networks means all of the buzzwords are taken care of, whereas the “Dimensity 1080’s HyperEngine 3.0 gaming enhancements [mean] for quick efficiency,” the corporate added.
We’ll must see this chipset working in actual telephones to know whether or not any of this bears fruit, with MediaTek saying that we must always see these arrive within the fourth quarter of 2022.
It additionally arrives months after MediaTek launched its flagship Dimensity 9000+ chip, silicon that presently powers a lot of telephones from the likes of Asus, Honor, and Vivo.
Writing by Oliver Haslam. Modifying by Rik Henderson.
