MediaTek Helio G90 announcement scheduled for July 30

MediaTek is gearing up to release its first gamer-centric chipset kicking off the brand new Helio G-series on July 30. The manufacturer plans to introduce the G90 SoC at an event in Shanghai. Seeing how gaming phones are gaining momentum this move would position MediaTek in the forefront for future budget gaming devices.

While we don’t have any concrete specs of the new chipset, speculations point to an overhauled Helio P90 which is an eight-core CPU built on a 12nm process. The main difference with the new G90 will likely come in the GPU department although nothing has been officially confirmed yet.

MediaTek usually relies on PowerVR and Mali solutions for its GPUs and with more powerful offerings available from both companies in the face of the Mali-G76 and Power-VR GM9446 we should see one of them make its way in the new chipset. In addition, we’ll likely see a software GPU enhancer along the likes of Huawei’s GPU Turbo.

There is still no word on what makers will use the new gaming SoC so we’ll have to wait till next week’s announcement for more details.

Source (in Chinese) | Via