Towards the end of December 2020, Mediatek announced the Dimensity 800. More details about the chipset were revealed at CES 2020. The chipset is its third processor with an integrated 5G modem under the Dimensity series. The other two are the Dimensity 1000 and Dimensity 1000L. The Dimensity 1000L is still the only one of the three 5G processors that can be found in a commercially-available phone. No manufacturer has announced a phone powered by the Dimensity 1000 and Dimensity 800 yet but that might change soon, at least with respect to the latter.
According to Digital Chat Station, Redmi will be the first manufacturer to announce a phone with a Dimensity 800 processor. The leaker revealed the info on Weibo earlier today but failed to mention the name of the phone and when to expect it. Nevertheless, we have a guess of our own.
After looking at Redmi’s lineup, we believe the Dimensity 800-powered phone will appear in a Redmi Note phone, specifically the Redmi Note 9 Pro for China. Hold your horses, we’ll explain.
The Dimensity 800 is a chipset designed for affordable 5G devices. Redmi already has an upper mid-range 5G phone which is the Redmi K30 5G. The Redmi Note series is its mid-range line of smartphones and it makes sense if it will be the one to come with the chipset.
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However, since the major markets (read India) where the Redmi Note series are popular are yet to have 5G, Redmi has no choice than to limit the 5G Redmi Note phone, in this case, the Redmi Note 9 Pro with a Dimensity 800 processor to China where 5G networks are available while the global version has a Snapdragon 720G processor. This is not the first time that a Redmi phone will have different specs in different markets, so it should not come as a surprise.
The Dimensity 800 has four Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.0GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2.0GHz too. It is a 7nm chipset and it has a Mali-G77 GPU.
The chipset brings significant upgrades in performance and efficiency when compared to the Helio G90T that powers the Redmi Note 8 Pro. The G90T is a 12nm chipset with two Cortex-A76 cores and eight Cortex-A55 cores. So the Dimensity 800 is definitely an upgrade.
The Redmi Note 9 series launches on March 12 in India but there is no launch date yet for China.
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