MediaTek MT6592 octa-core CPU goes through AnTuTu
Back in the heat of the summer MediaTek announced the world first true octa-core processor. Dubbed the MediaTek MT6592, it features eight Cortex-A7 CPU cores utilizing the 28nm manufacturing process and is able to run them all simultaneously.
Higher is better
MediaTek has officially confirmed that the chip can run at 2GHz. The higher frequency should be able to return more than 30,000 points, and software optimizations might help improve the score even further, but that's yet to be confirmed and remains just a speculation at this point.
A couple of months ago Qualcomm released a video bashing MediaTek's octa-core chipset, saying that it's not the number of core that matters, but their performance.
It appears Samsung doesn't share Qualcomm's view on the matter, thought, as it also announced it's working on a true octa-core Exynos chip. The company has confirmed it won't update the Galaxy Note 3 or the Galaxy S4 with true octa-core capabilities, suggesting that it's probably saving it for the upcoming Galaxy S5 flagship.