MediaTek MTK6589T Performance Review

MediaTek Chips get a bit of a bad rap these days, but after using one for a while i cnat quite see why, sure, their earlier chips sucked, hard, but so did chips from other companies? do any of you Remeber Qualcomm's "Scorpion" core, which was just, terrible when it was supposed to better than the Cortex A8 at the time, and then we had the Snapdragon S3, which was, well, anyone who had used a snapdragon S3 device pretty much,unanimouslt wishes they hadnt, but look at their newer Chips, the "Krait" Core in the Newer Snapdragon 600/800 are some of, if not the fastest chips on the market, so if they can turn over a new leaf as it were, why cant MediaTek?

The MTK6589T is made of 4 ARM Cortex A7 CPU Cores, now the Cortex A7 is just a low power consumption version of the Cortex A9 whilst keeping performance pretty comparable, the PowerVR SGX544MP4 GPU is also pretty awesome, in fact, it's what Apple uses in their iPads, the Android way of using them works slightly differently though, and the Cortex A7's have enough grunt to power the 1080p screen on my ZP980 review Unit, but i personally think, that 720p screens would be better for this, sure it can run at 1080p with a stutter here and there, but wouldn't you rather it run at 720p without any lag anywhere? Dont get me wrong, the fact this is running native 1080p is phenomenal, and the lag is few and far between,but it is there.

Benchmarks dont favour the MediaTek chipset very much, it comes out decidely average, sometimes on the lower end of even that spectrum, and for people that buy on Benchmark scores (though you really,really,really shouldnt buy a device on benchmark scores) this might put them off.

Watch the Video to see how it stacks up.

-Dom

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