The MediaTek Dimensity 9300 launched in November of final yr and it was an odd design – it packed 4 Cortex-X4 prime cores, as a substitute of the standard one. And it skipped the little cores altogether, utilizing 4 Cortex-A720 to convey the core rely to eight.
MediaTek CEO Cai Lixing attended the opening of a brand new workplace constructing and spoke extremely of the success of the 9300, including that AI will turn into more and more extra essential for smartphones.
The CEO additionally teased the subsequent flagship chip, tentatively dubbed “Dimensity 9400”, which is anticipated within the fourth quarter of this yr. This would be the first MediaTek constructed on TSMC’s 3nm node (N3E), the 9300 was fabbed on the older N4P node.
Now, the CPU configuration of the Dimensity 9400 has not been formally confirmed, however right here’s what the early rumors are saying. The very best clocked core will probably be a brand new Cortex-X5 (which is but to be formally introduced). The center and backside cores stay the identical – 3x Cortex-X4 and 4x Cortex-A720.
We don’t know the clock speeds but and we haven’t seen the N3E node in motion (it’s anticipated for use for the iPhone 16 collection). In our testing, the 9300 confirmed superb stability underneath load – retaining 80% of its peak energy after 40 minutes and settling at 73% after longer use.
That was spectacular to see, contemplating that the entire level of getting only one prime core and several other little ones was to cut back energy utilization and warmth. MediaTek proved that specializing in giant cores is a viable technique too.
Anyway, as you possibly can see within the chart, the Dimensity 9400 is anticipated to have a greater NPU as properly with 20%-50% quicker technology from Massive Language Fashions like Llama2 7B and 15% quicker picture technology with Steady Diffusion v1.5.
PS. stories declare that MediaTek has partnered with Nvidia to construct a chipset with a GeForce GPU as a substitute of the standard ARM Mali/Immortalis. It will make for an attention-grabbing struggle towards the Exynos 2500, which is able to reportedly characteristic only one Cortex-X5 (with Cortex-A730 and A520 making up the remainder of the CPU) and an AMD-based GPU.
