[Rumor] LG G3 Benchmarked with QHD Display and Octa-core MediaTek Processor

[dgstorm]

"Curiouser and curiouser... " It appears that we have a new wrinkle in the building story of the upcoming G3 from LG, one that Alice would be intrigued by. A screenshot of a benchmark showed up online that is supposedly of the upcoming LG D-850. As we have reported previously, the D-850 is suspected to be the G3. What is unusual about this benchmark isn't that the rumored QHD display is on-hand. We won't be surprised if that turns out to be true. The surprising thing found in this benchmark is that it sports an octa-core MediaTek processor.

Up until now, most of the industry speculated that the G 3 would come with either the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 CPU or it's faster cousin, the Snapdragon 805. If this pic is not fake, then this would be a strong departure from the norm for LG. It might not be too surprising when we take a look at the chip though. Reports indicate that it is a serious advancement for MediaTek and is supposedly a serious competitor to the Snapdragon 805, at a cheaper price. Here's a quote with some details on this chip,

A leaked graphics benchmark screenshot puts all this guesswork on the backburner, though, as the handset's Android build board is listed as MT6595, which is the tag of MediaTek's most powerful processor to date. The octa-core monster is claimed to be in the same league as Snapdragon 805. MT6595 has four powerful 2.2-2.5 GHz Cortex-A17 cores, and four 1.7 GHz Cortex-A7 ones for the everyday tasks, all paired with a fast Rogue PowerVR Series6 GPU.

What do you guys think? Would you care what manufacturer made the chip in a flagship device as long as it was powerful and battery efficient?

Source: PhoneArena

 

[johnomaz]

Qualcomm needs to be taken down a few notches. Lets hope MediatTek's chip is as good as it sounds and that they play a bit nicer with the open source foundation Qualcomm is supposed to be doing but doesn't.