Mediatek Helio X30 benchmarked on Geekbench 4

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Mediatek announced its successor to the Helio X20 chipset in August this year, the Helio X30. The chip is built in on a 10nm manufacturing process allowing for more powerful cores to be added into the chip.

The configuration of the chipset was same as the Helio X20's tri-cluster design. But Helio X30 features four powerful Cortex A-73 cores running at 2.8 GHz, two Cortex A-53 cores at 2.2 GHz and another two Cortex A-53 cores running at 2.0 Ghz, as per GSMArena.

The benchmark scores for the chip are now out and we see a moderate performance from the deca-core chip. A number of devices powered by Mediatek's Helio X30 were benchmarked on Geekbench and this gives insight on how the chip would perform once it is out in consumer devices. The performance of the chip is still short of what Snapdragon 820 offers leave alone the newer Snapdragon 821.

The single-core Geekbench 4 score of just 1504 reported by GIZMOCHINA is lower than what Snapdragon 820 powered phones are offering currently. However, the scenario is completely different when the all the cores of the chip are put to test. A multi-core Geekbench score of around 1900 is impressive and outperforms most of the Snapdragon 820 powered devices.

We can expect a better performance from the chip once it makes its appearance in consumer devices as the devices which are benchmarked are still in pre-production stages. Also, the Helio X30 chip used in these devices is clocked at 1.59 GHz which is much lower than the frequency of the least powerful cluster in the Helio X30 that is the Cortex A-53 at 2.0 GHz.

So, the production unit will perform much better than the currently leaked devices featuring the Helio X30. Devices using this chipset will show up in the second half of 2017 and we will have to wait till then to see the true power of this chip.