MediaTek has officially announced the launch of the Dimensity 9400, its snappiest mobile chipset to date. Built on TSMC’s 3nm process, the company claims that its latest chipset is “up to 40 percent more power efficient” than its predecessor.
The octa-core chipset comes with an ARM Cortex-X295 core running at 3.62GHz, 3 ARM Cortex-X4 cores, and 4 Cortex-A720 cores. While the Cortex-X29 is new, the other two cores were launched last year at Computex.
According to MediaTek, the new configuration gives the Dimensity 9400 a 35 percent and 28 percent performance boost in single and multi-core performance benchmarks compared to its precursor. On the GPU side, the new ARM 12-core Immortalis-G295 brings 40 percent more ray tracing performance than before.
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Dimensity 9400 Under The Hood
The new Dimensity 9400 also comes with some upgrades to the NPU, which the company claims offers “80 percent faster large language model prompt performance,” and allows AI video generation and support for creating agentic apps. For tri-fold smartphones like the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Edition, the chipset brings support for scaling content.
The chipset is capable of recording videos in 8K at 60fps and supports full-range HDR zoom on devices that can implement it. As for the connectivity, MediaTek claims it has refreshed the 5G modem with up to 7Gbps performance and a new 4nm Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo chip that requires even less power.
MediaTek Dimnesity 9400 will be available sometime in Q4 of 2024. The first smartphone to come equipped with the new chipset will be the Vivo X200 series, slated to launch in China on October 14.
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New Chipsets To Offer 40% Better Performance Than Current Gen
Although these new chips are said to get a price hike, new information from Vivo Product Manager Han Boxiao suggests that this year’s SoCs (System on Chip) will deliver performance improvements that will surpass the combined gains of the past two generations.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 / Dimensity 9400 will fill two generations of performance gap. And speaking of whether it is the right time to shift to a flagship, Han acknowledges that while last year’s flagships were appealing because of more RAM at lower costs, 2024 could be an even better time to make the switch.
According to Han, who claims to have “17 generations” of products and “12 SoC iterations” experience, the typical SoC performance improves by around 15% from generation to generation, with occasional jumps of around 25%. However, he says that this year’s SoCs will offer a remarkable 40% improvement. Han even claims that this year’s flagship chipsets will create a two-generation leap in performance in one go.