The release of the Redmi K50 not only represents the beginning of a higher price in the 5G high-end market this year, but also sets off the hijab of the new Tianji 8100 5G chip. You know, when this new machine is warmed up, the information revealed by MediaTek's Tianji 8100 has a feeling of glory and godhood. Although this chip still uses the ARMv8 instruction set architecture, as a later challenger, Tianji 8100 does not actually mean just as a candidate for the high-end market, but to kick the benchmark product - Qualcomm Snapdragon 870/888, completely overturning the opponent's old nest. So, how is the real performance of the Redmi K50? Is The Tianji 8100 really worthy of the heavy lifting? Or is it a bluff? Let's follow our test and let's have a look.
Before the test, we may wish to talk about the basic specifications and performance indicators of the Redmi K50 series and the Tianji 8100. The first-mover model of the Redmi K50 series includes two models, K50 and K50 Pro, of which K50 is the Tianji 8100 quasi-flagship platform that we want to talk about next, and the K50 Pro uses the latest Tianji 9000 flagship platform, and at last night's press conference, Redmi also added a thinner and lighter K40S model with the same performance for the K40 family, which uses qualcomm Snapdragon 870. That is to say, the three new products of Redmi have pulled the performance to the top of the same market price, not only pointing to the friends of some sub-mother brands, but also the strength is fierce, and it may even hurt their brothers by mistake, so the extreme cost performance is indeed heartwarming to many netizens.
In terms of the Redmi K50 alone, in addition to the powerful core, the machine also provides a 3950 square millimeter VC stereoscopic liquid-cooled radiator, and the storage performance has also been pulled to the top level of LPDDR5+ UFS3.1, which further enhances the smoothness of application and game startup, loading and multi-threaded tasks, so this product leaves almost no dead end in performance.
Then the reason why Tianji 8100 is highly anticipated stems from the performance reference data officially released by MediaTek. In terms of basic parameters, The Tianji 8100 adopts TSMC's advanced 5nm process technology, and the core ratio is also a more stable 4+4 BL architecture, of which four large cores use A78 cores with a 2.85GHZ main frequency, and the four energy efficiency cores attached to the A55 with 2.0GHZ can also feel its confidence in energy efficiency compared to MediaTek's previously used three-cluster architecture. In terms of GPU, this chip uses the ARM public version of the Mali G610 MC6. From the paper data, all the core specifications are armed solutions released in the summer of last year, so why threaten the Snapdragon 888?
MediaTek's performance comparison data shows that compared with competitors, Tianji 8100 is 12% ahead of the CPU multi-core performance, 44% in energy efficiency, while the GPU is 4% ahead, and the energy efficiency lead is 35%. If you compare the specifications of the Snapdragon 888, it is not difficult to find that although the core solution differences are not large, in terms of architecture mode and main frequency, snapdragon is obviously defeated. In particular, only one A78 super core or 2.84GHZ main frequency is already in the downwind, the other three A78 large cores are reduced to 2.4GHZ, the same quad-core A55 energy efficiency core the main frequency is also 200MHZ lower, which makes the Snapdragon 888 in the benchmark performance will inevitably be very disadvantaged, coupled with the advantages of the process, Tianji 8100 in energy efficiency is obviously not surprising.
We also used two dimensions of benchmark and game to conduct performance measurements. In the Antutu test, the Redmi K50 directly got 840,000 points, obviously crushing the 790,000-point best score of the Snapdragon 888, because of the core ratio and the main frequency advantage, this crushing trend is obviously reasonable.
The same comprehensive test software Master Lu is relatively outrageous, directly giving a score of 1.05 million points in the test, directly equaling the Snapdragon 8Gen1, making us quite suspicious of the effectiveness of the test.
In terms of the cpu operation test alone, we used GeekBench 5 as a test tool, with a single-core score of 981 points and a multi-core score of 3815 points, and its single-core score slightly lost to Qualcomm's competitors, but the multi-core score has significantly crushed the Snapdragon 888.
In fact, in terms of benchmarking, because the emergence of Tianji 8100 as a new platform will be more or less biased in the test tool, the actual experience of the game is more reliable than the number of achievements with an increased float rate.
Game testing We directly use the mainstream and most expensive hardware resources of the original god to test, the test conditions are full high quality, while turning on the 60fps frame rate setting.
In the five-minute Perfdog statistics, the average frame rate of the Redmi K50 running exceeded 58fps, while the frame rate jitter was 19.7%, and the rate of severe stutter was 16.1%, although the rate of severe stuttering was not outstanding, but the actual sensory experience did not seem to be so exaggerated, and the high-speed movement of the perspective in the battle scene did not bring obvious stuttering discomfort, that is, this number can only be used as a reference, and in actual experience, The performance of the Redmi K50 is no less than that of the previous Snapdragon 888 platform, or even better.
Of course, performance is only one aspect, and many consumers are more concerned about the heating up of this phone in the game state. Here we can directly give the answer, that is, compared to the Snapdragon 888, the heat of the Redmi K50 after continuous game experience is much better than the former, which is also mediatek dares to give dozens of percentages of the lead in the benchmark number.
In the room temperature environment of 25 ° C, the heat of the Redmi K50 after running "Original God" for 30 minutes is more concentrated in the camera side position, and conducts to the top border position, the average temperature of infrared temperature sampling is 41.4 ° C, the temperature perception of other parts is very average, and it is significantly higher than the comfort threshold, and the overall performance is stronger than that of Snapdragon 888/Plus and Snapdragon 8Gen1, which is basically consistent with Snapdragon 870.
Test Summary:
As the first model of the Tianji 8100 platform, the Redmi K50 obviously seized the sex price opportunity with the late-powered MediaTek, and as far as the Tianji 8100 itself is concerned, it is basically certain that this chip has reached the peak level of the core comprehensive energy efficiency of the v8 era, so its unburdened value has also given the Redmi K50 equivalent outstanding performance. So how qualcomm should take over next, whether the ARMv8 architecture will have miracles in the future, and let's wait and see.