Huawei recently announced the Kirin 930 SoC, with the MediaPad X2 being the first device to be packing this chipset. Closer analysis of the SoC took everybody by surprise as all eight CPU cores were revealed to be Cortex-A53, while rival manufacturers use four Cortex-A53 cores and four high power Cortex-A57 CPU cores for efficiency and performance respectively.
The company has now explained this strange exclusion, citing battery life related concerns reasons. According to the company, the 2.0 GHz CPU cores on the Kirin 930 are actually known as Cortex-A53e, which is a modified and over clocked version of the Cortex-A53.
According to Huawei, the Cortex-A57 uses 256% more power compared to the Cortex-A53, which makes it quite evident as to why the company took this route with the Kirin 930 SoC.
Despite sacrificing on performance to some extent, the chipset managed to score 44,000 points on AnTuTu, which is a more than decent score for a chipset of this calibre. So judging by what we’ve heard from the company, the MediaPad X2 should be a pretty decent tablet in terms of performance.
Source: myDrivers
Via: Gizmo China
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