Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek quietly introduced a new processor with an unusual naming for the company MediaTek Dimensity 9400e (first rumors), which should compete with the latest Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chip from Qualcomm.
In terms of performance, the Dimensity 9400e confidently surpasses not only last year’s flagship Dimensity 9300 chip, but also its overclocked version in the face of the Dimensity 9300+. Moreover, according to the developer, in the GFXBench graphics test, the Dimensity 9400e chipset is 28% faster than the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4.
At the same time, the Dimensity 9400e has the same core set as the Dimensity 9300+, which includes four super Arm Cortex-X4 cores (1 x 3.4 GHz + 3 x 2.85 GHz) and a quartet of high-performance Cortex-A720 cores with frequencies up to 2.0 GHz.
In addition, the novelty has the same graphics in the form of an Arm Immortalis-G720 controller with 12 cores and hardware ray tracing acceleration, as well as the same ISP Imagiq 990 signal processor, so it’s generally unclear how MediaTek engineers increased the performance of the Dimensity 9400e.
The OnePlus Ace 5 Racing Edition is among the first smartphones built on the single-chip Dimensity 9400e system, but there is no information yet about whether Xiaomi will use the new chip in its products.