Xiaomi recently introduced its Mi Play smartphone with waterdrop notch in China. The Mi Play is the world’s first smartphone to be powered by MediaTek Helio P35 chipset. This chipset was first introduced during the release of Mi Play and was not released until the launch of the smartphone.
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A benchmark results of the MediaTek Helio P35 chipset is now available online. The Helio P35 SoC is slightly ahead of the Snapdragon 625, because the chipset scores 86,352 points in Geekbench. The company claimed that Helio P35 is better than Snapdragon 625.
The octa-core Cortex-A53 MediaTek Helio P35 SoC is built on TSMC’s advanced 12nm FinFET node, clocked at 2.3GHz. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 630 also offers the identical type and number of cores but are clocked at 2.2GHz. However, since this is a 12nm chip, MediaTek Helio P35 delivers better performance and longer battery life compared to 14nm SoC SD630.
The chip comes with Imagination’s PowerVR GE8320 graphics processor. According to the company, Helio P35 also supports full-HD+ display and an 20:9 aspect ratio. Gizmochina reported that the chip comes with a hardware depth engine for professional-level bokeh images, EIS and Rolling Shutter Compensation (RSC), that helps deliver better output while recording fast-moving objects.
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The chipset also supports LPDDR3 and LPDDR4x RAM (4 GB and 6 GB) and eMMC 5.1 storage. For photography, it supports 13MP+13MP dual cameras or a single 25MP camera sensor along with the AI-based Face Unlock feature. In terms of connectivity, the chip supports dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, VoLTE, and ViLTE.