MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 launched final yr was the primary Android SoC to go together with an all large core configuration for its CPU, one thing this yr’s Dimensity 9400 additionally went with, however these are each high of the road chipsets.
Right now marks the introduction of the primary upper-midrange SoC with an all large core CPU. Meet the MediaTek Dimensity 8400, which is certain to pose an enormous risk, performance-wise, to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, which has been the uncontested king of this class for fairly some time now.
The Dimensity 8400 comes with eight Cortex-A725 CPU cores, clocked at as much as 3.25 GHz. Be aware that whereas MediaTek hasn’t damaged down the clock pace per core, that is more likely to solely be achieved by one in every of them, not all.
In comparison with the Dimensity 8300, MediaTek claims a 41% enchancment in multi-core efficiency. The corporate additionally boasts 44% much less peak energy use, as much as 100% extra L2 cache, 50% extra L3 cache, and 25% extra SLC cache. The chip helps as much as WQHD+ screens at as much as 144 Hz refresh price, LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 storage, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.4.
The CPU is paired with the Arm Mali-G720 MC7 GPU, which brings 24% increased peak efficiency and 42% much less energy use. You can even count on contact latency optimizations as properly. The MediaTek NPU 880 that is within the Dimensity 8400 is 20% quicker in integer/floating-point operations (33% in giant language mannequin textual content era), improves effectivity by 18%, and is 21% higher in Secure Diffusion 1.5 too.
The SoC has the Imagiq 1080 ISP which helps 320 MP sensors, in-sensor zoom with 100% PDAF, HDR video recording all through your entire zoom vary, and it makes use of 12% much less energy in 4K HDR video seize. Lastly, the brand new 5G-A modem comes with as much as 5.17Gbps obtain efficiency.
