Qualcomm and MediaTek are gearing up for the launch of their next generation of flagship mobile processors that will compete against one another in the high end smartphone segment. Now, a new leak has just revealed the architecture of both SoCs (system on chip).
This leak arrives from known Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station who revealed that both the Snapdragon 898 SoC and the Dimensity 2000 will be based on the same ARM based architecture. The Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsets will feature the latest ARM Cortex X2 super cores along with the Cortex A710 and Cortex A510 cores. In other words, both chips will be based on ARM’s V9 architecture.
For those unaware, the X2 super cores and A710 cores are high performance cores while the A510 cores are geared for efficiency. This leak is in line with our previous report that had stated that both chips will be nearly identical in terms of their CPU. On the other hand, the difference will come down to the GPU, with the Qualcomm chip featuring an Adreno GPU while the MediaTek processor have an ARM Mali GPU.
So, we can expect the Snapdragon 898 to have an edge over the Dimensity 2000, since the Adreno has traditionally been faster over the Mali GPU. But, this might not be reflected in the CPU side since the Dimensity 2000 features higher clock speeds of 2.85GHz over the 2.5GHz clock speed on the Snapdragon 898 processor for their X2 and Cortex A710 performance cores. Notably, the tipster also stated that the upcoming high end Qualcomm and MediaTek chips will be based on the 4nm technology from TSMC as well. But it remains to be seen how both chips stack up against each other.
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