MediaTek Helio G90 and G90T SoCs with HyperEngine game technology announced; Xiaomi phone with Helio G90T launching in India soon

MediaTek just announced Helio G90 and G90T SoCs in the ‘G series’ in India. Designed to be used in mid-range gaming smartphones, these have MediaTek’s HyperEngine game technology to boost the mobile gaming experience.  These use ARM Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 CPUs with the Arm Mali — G76 3EEMC4 with speeds of up to 800MHz and are based on 12nm TSMC FinFET technology. “The combination of CPU, GPU and APU delivers up to 1TMACs performance, for peak power and smooth game play,” said the company.

It supports up to 10GB of LPDDR4x and up to 2133MHz memory, L3 cache, CPU speeds of up to 2.05GHz, 64MP single camera and multi-camera combinations, quad pixel technology for night shot mode, triple-ISP design and AI facial detection and the power to accelerate AI-camera applications.

MediaTek’s HyperEngine technology includes:

  • Networking Engine:  Intelligent network prediction optimizes the connection between your smartphone and cellular network.  If it detects the Wi-Fi signal degrading, it triggers Wi-Fi and LTE concurrency that takes just milliseconds. This seamless exchange from one connection to the other keeps the network connection smooth and the game lag-free.
  • Dual Wi-Fi Connections allows a single smartphone antenna to be connected to two Wi-Fi bands (2.4GHz/5GHz) or two routers simultaneously. This ensures a reliable connection, decreases latency and reduces game jitter.
  • Call & Data Concurrency so when your smartphone receives a call it won’t drop the data connection. You can defer a call without leaving the game. The data connection remains live and the game server connection never drops, not even for a millisecond.
  • Rapid Response Engine uses touch acceleration to improve in-game action-to-display speeds so the game world is streamed and rendered fast and fluidly. Precise timing control, up to the millisecond, delivers an instant action-to-display experience, faster frame rates and smoother game play so you can maneuver the game world without stutter.
  • Resource Management Engine intelligently directs device resources including CPU and GPU for optimum performance and automatically delivers smooth, fluid, high-performance frame rates in games. It ensures smoother performance while benefitting power consumption for longer game play.
  • Picture Quality Engine provides Support for the latest HDR10 standard with 10-bit Color Depth for vivid visuals on HDR-enabled smartphone displays for theater-like viewing. Deep picture quality enhancements bring better contrast and improved fine details for true-to-life gaming experiences.

MediaTek Helio G90 and G90T specifications

   Helio G90  Helio G90T
Process TSMC 12nm
CPU 2x Cortex-A76 @ 2 GHz
6x Cortex-A55 @ 2GHz
2x Cortex-A76 @ 2.05 GHz
6x Cortex-A55 @ 2GHz
Memory 2X LPDDR4x Up to 2133MHz up to 8GB, eMMC 5.1 / UFS 2.1 2X LPDDR4x Up to 2133MHz up to 10GB, eMMC 5.1 / UFS 2.1
Camera  24MP+16MP, 48MP / Triple camera

3X ISP; AI Face Detection; HW depth engine; AINR; Single-Cam/Dual-Cam Bokeh; Hardware Warping Engine (EIS); Rolling Shutter Compensation (RSC) engine; MEMA 3DNR; Multi-Frame Noise reduction;

24MP+16MP, 64MP / Quad camera

3X ISP; AI Face Detection; HW depth engine; AINR; Single-Cam/Dual-Cam Bokeh; Hardware Warping Engine (EIS); Rolling Shutter Compensation (RSC) engine; MEMA 3DNR; Multi-Frame Noise reduction;

Display 2520 x 1080 (Full HD+) at 21:9 60Hz 2520 x 1080 (Full HD+) at 21:9 90Hz
Video Decode / Video Encode 2160p (2160 x 1080), h.264, h.265 / HEVC 4K 30fps, FHD 120fps, HD 240fps 2160p (2160 x 1080), h.264, h.265 / HEVC 4K 30fps, FHD 120fps, HD 240fps
Graphics ARM Mali G76 3EEMC4 @ 720MHz ARM Mali G76 3EEMC4 @ 800MHz
Modem Cat-12 DL / Cat-13 UL, 4X4 MIMO, 3XCA, 256QAM, TAS 2.0, HPUE, IMS (VoLTE\ViLTE\WoWi-Fi), eMBMS, Dual 4G VoLTE (DSDS), Band 71
Connectivity Integrated Dual-Band Wi-Fi 5 (a/b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 5.0,
GPS + Glonass + Beidou + Galileo, FM radio
Others Intelligent Dual Mic Wake-up/ Single Wake-up word Intelligent Dual Mic Wake-up/ Dual Wake-up word

New Xiaomi phone powered by Helio G90T

At the launch event Xiaomi India head and VP Manu Kumar Jain announced that Xiaomi will launch a new Helio G90T powered phone in India. It launched the Redmi 6 and Redmi 6A budget phones powered by Helio P22 and Helio A22 SoCs in India last year, but this will be the first time the company is coming up with a phone powered by a top-end MediaTek chip.


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