As one of the core components of a smart phone, the processor has always been the focus of the user.
At the end of February this year, MediaTek introduced a new generation of mid-to-high-end processors at the MWC, the Helio P60. Compared with the previous P-series SoCs, the Helio P60 not only used the A73 architecture for the first time, but also added an APU dedicated to AI operations. In the photo, the process has also been further improved.
After three months, smart phone products equipped with Helio P60 processor began to be listed one after another.
So, at the same price point, what is the performance of a cell phone equipped with the Helio P60? Is it worth buying? Today, let us start with the OPPO R15 Helio P60. Let's take a look at the actual performance of the Helio P60!
Performance articles: Running mainstream mobile games without stress
Regarding the processor, the user is most concerned about its performance.
This time the Helio P60 left a 'reliable' impression on the parameters: Not only did it upgrade to TSMC’s latest 12nm in process, but it also upgraded to 4*A73@2.0GHz+4*A53 in the CPU section. @ 2.0GHz, the GPU part uses an ARM Mali-G72 MP3 with a frequency of 800MHz.
In response to the performance of MediaTek Helio P60, we used security Bunny, GeekBench, and GFXbench to test their overall performance, CPU performance, and GPU performance. The final results are as follows:
Among them, the OPPO R15 equipped with Helio P60 achieved 13.8 W in the security Bunny test. The performance was very satisfactory.
If you understand some of the previous Xiaolong 660 chip mobile phones, it is not difficult to find that the OPPO R15 Bunny equipped with the Helio P60 has similar running points with a number of Xiaolong 660 models. In other words, the overall strength of the two SoCs. Not comparable.
In the GeekBench and GFXbench tests on CPUs and GPUs, the performance of the Helio P60 is also very good, especially Geekbench's multi-core test scores. The score of up to 5776 can even be compared with the multi-core scores of some of the previous-generation flagship SoCs.
In practical applications, I have chosen the popular mobile games “The Glory of the King” and “Jade for survival: Stimulation Battlefield” to test. The test results are as follows:
As OPPO and Tencent performed multi-thread optimization on OPPO R15's Operation King Glory, the OPPO R15 equipped with the Helio P60 performed very well in the King's Glory Test. It performed very positively on the core call, and the frame rate remained stable throughout the entire process. 60 frames or so.
In the “stimulus battlefield” where processor performance is more demanding, the performance of the Helio P60 has finally been better utilized: The above curve is the game frame rate, CPU utilization, and memory utilization rate recorded by the Gamebench during the game.
At present, the OPPO R15 only has 30 frames in its HD image quality. In the above test, except for a few small fluctuations, the Helio P60's game frame rate is almost maintained at around 30 frames, while the CPU usage of the game is only 16%. About, performance is quite satisfactory.
AI articles: Make your phone smarter
Since the second half of last year, artificial intelligence has become a new hot spot on smartphones.
The Helio P60 is the first mobile SoC based on the NeuroPilot AI platform. It not only has a CPU and a GPU, but also integrates a dual-core APU in the processor. Compared to the GPU, when performing AI operations, the performance of the APU is Twice the GPU.
Here, we used AIMark to test the AI performance of the OPPO R15 equipped with Helio P60:
From the test results, the total score of the Helio P60 can reach 821 points. Compared with the processor without the special AI processing unit, the Helio P60 has several times improvement.
If you have conducted some research on mobile AI, it is not difficult to find: For the current mobile AI, 'recognition' is still its main application scenario. On the Helio P60, deep learning facial recognition, text/objects and Scene recognition, user behavior notification is its main application scenario.
These characteristics we all can feel deeply on the OPPO R15 equipped with Helio P60, such as face recognition unlock function, you can increase the unlock speed, recognition rate and security through the characteristics of Helio P60 AI.
In addition, the new word scan translation function on the OPPO R15 also uses the Helio P60 character recognition features, through the APU to improve the recognition accuracy and recognition speed.
The smart assistant on the rightmost screen of the desktop is the user behavior awareness function that can be provided by the APU, providing users with intelligent route planning, intelligent route management and other services, without increasing the burden on the CPU and causing extra power consumption.
Photographing: AI+ tri-core IPS blessing
The application of AI is also very extensive in the pictures we are most concerned about. With the support of dual-core APU, the OPPO R15's native camera has realized the function of intelligent scene recognition. It can be used for many scenes such as food, scenery, night shooting, and portraits. Recognition, and targeted optimization of photos.
In addition, the Helio P60 also uses a three-core ISP, which can support up to 32 million pixels camera, or 24 million pixels + 16 million pixels dual camera, significantly increased camera power, while significantly reducing power consumption, increased energy efficiency.
In the actual photographing process, OPPO R15 can quickly identify the scene and perform targeted optimization for the scene to improve the picture quality:
Actual proofs:
In the shooting scene, after the Helio P60 recognizes the food, it also optimizes the color and scene of the food, making the food look more attractive.
In the scenario above, with the scene recognition brought by the Helio P60 and real-time HDR optimization, the OPPO R15 not only ensures the sky color, the accuracy of the exposure, but also guarantees an underexposed area in this scene (forest, Building) Extensive exposure.
Makes the overall look and feel of the picture even better, and the preview in the camera is almost identical to the final proof.
In addition, the Helio P60's hardware-grade depth of field engine has brought outstanding depth of field effects to the OPPO R15: The main body of the photo is prominent, the depth of field effect is gradually deepened from the subject to the background, visually very natural, and the contour recognition of the blurred object is sufficient. Accurate.
In addition, when shooting at night, in the OPPO R15 new Sony IMX519 sensor + Helio P60 multi-frame noise reduction and blessing, the final proofs not only allow the screen brightness is sufficient, but the screen is also more pure.
Power Consumption: 12nm+CorePilot 4.0
In addition, this Helio P60 as the first SoC of 12nm TSMC process, and has a new generation of CorePilot technology support, power performance is also very worthy of attention.
Mediatek's CorePilot technology was first applied back to 2013, and this Helio P60 uses the latest CorePilot 4.0 multi-tasking computing technology.
Its biggest upgrade is to add self-adjusting temperature management and user experience monitoring features to more reasonably allocate and manage processor resources.
So, how does the Helio P60 compare to its competitors in terms of power consumption? In this part, we took OPPO R15 equipped with Helio P60 and OPPO R15 with Opteron 660 for up to 3 hours. The violent endurance test, the final result is as follows:
It can be seen that when running a task such as online video, which consumes less resources, the two mobile phones may not be able to open a big gap in their endurance. However, as the usage intensity increases later, the power consumption gap between the two mobile phones may be different. It was getting bigger and bigger. After 3 hours, the power consumption gap between the two reached 5%.
If calculated according to the chart, the OPPO R15 Dream Mirror version equipped with the Snapdragon 660 will continue to operate for 6.8 hours when used continuously; and the OPPO R15 equipped with the Helio P60, the battery life will reach 7.6 hours, and the battery life will be improved compared with the former. 11.8%.
to sum up:
Overall, as a mid-to-high-end processor, the Helio P60 not only has a significant increase in performance over its predecessor, but it has also spent a lot of time on the current popular 'AI':
The built-in dual-core APU gives users daily use in facial recognition, object/scene recognition, and user behavior notification. The enhancement of the camera experience is very significant. Plus, the excellent battery life of TSMC 12nm enables the Helio P60-equipped mobile phone This year's high-end mobile phone market has a good competitive edge.
For users who are still hesitant between numerous high-end and high-end flagship products, these successive Helio P60 products may be even more appetizing for them.
