MediaTek Helio G96 and Helio G88 chipsets have been officially announced. The newly launched smartphone chipsets are made for budget and mid-range smartphones with a mission to provide better display and photography capabilities to everyone. Both the processors are equipped with MediaTek's HyperEngine 2.0 Lite game technology.
The MediaTek Helio G96 is an octa-core processor (64-bit) with two Arm Cortex-A76 cores clocked up to 2.05GHz and six Arm Cortex-A55 cores for efficiency. This is paired with 2133MHz LPDDR4X memory and eMMC 5.1/UFS 2.2 storage. There is also an Arm Mali-G57 MC2 GPU for gaming experience. In terms of visuals, the chipset is said to have no limitation in DDIC supply, C-phy or D-phy interface and supports both LCD and AMOLED display with up to Full HD+ resolution and 120Hz screen refresh rate. In terms of optics, you get support for up to 108MP on the back and 32MP for selfie shooters. The processor supports Cat-13 4G LTE WorldMode modem integration and brings support for dual 4G SIM VoLTE and ViLTE services.
The MediaTek Helio G88 is a slightly less powered SoC compared to the Helio G96. It is an eight-core mobile processor with two Arm Cortex-A75 CPUs operating up to 2GHz and six Arm Cortex-A55 CPUs. For gaming, the chipset comes with Arm Mali-G52 MC2 clocked at 1GHz. On the memory front, the Helio G88 can handle up to 1800MHz 8GB LPDDR4x RAM and eMMC 5.1. Further, the MediaTek Helio G88 supports up to 90Hz screen, 64MP main cameras and the company says this can be used for any combination of wide-angle, telescopic, macro cameras. It also includes Camera Control Unit (CCU), Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS), and Rolling Shutter Compensation (RSC) technologies.