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The chipmaker announced the MediaTek Helio G200, its latest midrange chipset for mobile devices, on Monday. The Taiwanese company says its new chip is designed for powerful gaming cellphones, with a focus on improving social and messaging apps. In terms of single-core performance, it is claimed to outperform competitive alternative platforms by more than 40%. Despite the nomenclature change, the chip's characteristics are mostly similar from the Helio G100 or its predecessor, the Helio G99, with the exception of increased GPU clock speed, improved HDR video quality, and other minor tweaks.
MediaTek Helio G200 Chipset Specifications
According to MediaTek, the Helio G200 chipset has a 6nm octa-core architecture with heterogeneous multiprocessing. The SoC includes two Arm Cortex-A76 cores at 2.2GHz and six Arm Cortex-A55 cores at 2.0GHz. It is accompanied with LPDDR4X RAM with a maximum frequency of 4266Mbps and UFS 2.2 storage. Although the chipset uses the same Arm Mali-G57 MC2 GPU as the CPU, it runs at a faster 1.1GHz clock speed.
According to MediaTek, the Helio G200 outperforms single-core processors by up to 40% and multi-core processors by 20%. It is touted to run 35 percent quicker on AnTuTu benchmarks. The GPU's greater clock speed enables it to operate 75 percent quicker than competitive alternative platforms, while the chip is up to 30% more power efficient while gaming.
The processor is integrated with MediaTek HyperEngine, which regulates the CPU, GPU, and RAM based on power, temperature conditions, and gaming needs in order to give smooth gameplay while remaining power efficient. According to the business, it provides constant framerate and quick network performance by rotating between wireless antennae to get the optimum signal. The chip uses connection concurrency to keep the game running even when a call is received.
Smartphones using the MediaTek Helio G200 processor will be able to accommodate up to 200-megapixel camera sensors, thanks to the built-in triple-core Image Signal Processor (ISP). It can take video in up to 2K quality at 30 frames per second (fps). Its new 12-bit DCG offers higher-quality video HDR recording, while other features include hardware dual-camera capability, lossless in-sensor zoom, and portrait lenses. MediaTek claims that it has worked with camera app developers to cut battery usage by up to 20%.
The processor enables on-device displays with a maximum Full HD+ resolution and refresh rate of up to 120Hz without the need for external DSC hardware. Its Display Sync technology is supposed to improve power economy by dynamically altering the refresh rate based on usage, yielding up to a 20% increase.
The Helio G200 SoC provides connection via a Cat-13 DL modem that supports dual 4G VoLTE, 4X4 MIMO, 256QAM, Bluetooth 5.2, and Wi-Fi 5. It is compatible with satellite systems such as QZSS, Galileo, Beidou, GLONASS, NavIC, and GPS.
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