Xiaomi Will Soon Announce A New Gaming Phone With Mediatek Helio G90T Chipset

Just recently, Chinese phone maker Xiaomi has announced its smartphone flagship Redmi K20 series for the Indian market, including Redmi K20 and Redmi K20 Pro. It is a flagship with really impressive specs such as variants with the maximum at 12GB of RAM, and the powerful Snapdragon 855. Now Xiaomi is working on a new device with a focus on gaming capability.

An in-house gaming phone from Xiaomi

The gaming phone Black Shark 2 (backed by Xiaomi) is already available on shell in India. However, it appears that they are heading toward an in-house gaming smartphone. Manu Kumar Jain (CEO of Xiaomi India) posted a tweet saying that they are very excited for the newly launch G90 and G90T gaming chipset from MediaTek. He also mentioned that the company would make a smartphone using the G90T chipset.

New gaming chipsets from Mediatek

The chipmaker MediaTek launched its Helio G90T and G90 chipset with a focus on gaming capability. Both of these chipsets all feature HyperEngine gaming technology from Mediatek. According to Mediatek, this technology will help chipset to deliver very high gaming performance, up to 50% faster than other chipsets. Mediatek made these chipsets in a competition attempt with the recently released Snapdragon 730G and 730 chipsets from Qualcomm.

The G90T is capable of supporting the hardware of up to 64 MP camera, 10 GB RAM, 90Hz displays. And the G90 features an octa-core CPU of Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A76 cores. This CPU delivers a max 2.05GHzclock speed.

We don't know yet which Xiaomi phone will receive this new powerful chipset from Mediatek, but rumors suggest that it might be the the Redmi Note 7 Pro's successor, the Redmi Note 8 Pro.