The MediaTek Dimensity 9300 launched in November of final 12 months and it was an odd design – it packed 4 Cortex-X4 prime cores, as a substitute of the same old one. And it skipped the little cores altogether, utilizing 4 Cortex-A720 to carry the core depend 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 grow to be more and more extra necessary for smartphones.
The CEO additionally teased the subsequent flagship chip, tentatively dubbed “Dimensity 9400”, which is predicted within the fourth quarter of this 12 months. 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 best clocked core will likely 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 sequence). In our testing, the 9300 confirmed excellent stability below 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 massive cores is a viable technique too.
Anyway, as you may see within the chart, the Dimensity 9400 is predicted to have a greater NPU as properly with 20%-50% sooner technology from Massive Language Fashions like Llama2 7B and 15% sooner picture technology with Steady Diffusion v1.5.
PS. experiences declare that MediaTek has partnered with Nvidia to construct a chipset with a GeForce GPU as a substitute of the same old ARM Mali/Immortalis. It will make for an attention-grabbing battle in opposition to 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.
