MediaTek’s latest Helio G95 chip will power next-gen mid-range gaming phones

MediaTek has announced its latest mobile chip called the Helio G95, which is designed for gaming smartphones. The Helio G95 is touted to be MediaTek’s “most powerful smartphone gaming-focused chip” for the next wave of 4G smartphones.

The new Helio G95, which is essentially an octa-core chipset, features 2x Cortex-A76 CPUs running at 2.05GHz and six Cortex-A55 low-power CPUs. This is paired with an ARM Mali-G76 MC4 GPU clocked at 900MHz. Compared to the G90T, its predecessor, the new G95 offers a 5 per cent boost in CPU performance and an 8 per cent boost in the GPU performance. The G95 also promises to improved graphics, and better resource management, thanks to the enhanced MediaTek HyperEngine game technology.