This fall, the American company Qualcomm will unveil its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 processor, but Taiwanese MediaTek is not going to give up and is preparing its answer in the form of the top-end Dimensity 9500 chipset.
A variety of rumors have been circulating about the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip for several months, and today a well-known Digital Chat Station insider shared on his Weibo page the key specifications of the future novelty.
According to the informant, the Dimensity 9500 will be manufactured using the improved 3nm N3P process technology at TSMC plants (like its competitor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2) and will have a completely new configuration of computing cores.
More specifically, the Dimensity 9500 will include one Travis core, three Alto cores, and four Gelas cores. Travis and Alto are said to be based on the latest ARM Cortex-X9 series supporting SME instruction sets, while Gelas is a new generation of large A7 series cores.
At the same time, it was previously reported that the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 will include two Arm Cortex-X930 super cores and six Arm Cortex-A730 cores. Moreover, the operating frequency of the first will reach 4.0 GHz, and the second – 3.5 GHz.
The chip also includes 16 MB of L3 cache and 10 MB of SLC cache, supports four-channel LPDDR5X RAM with data transfer rates up to 10,667 Mbps, as well as flash drives of the current UFS 4.1 format.
The GPU, so far known as Immortalis-Drage, is designed with a new microarchitecture to significantly improve ray tracing capabilities while reducing power consumption.
In addition, the updated NPU 9.0 neural unit is expected to provide computing power of up to 100 TOPS in tasks related to artificial intelligence.
While devices on the Dimensity 9400 score 2840000 points in AnTuTu tests, the Dimensity 9500 is expected to go much further and its results will exceed 4,000,000 “parrots”.