MediaTek is all set to launch an iterative update to last year’s Dimensity 8000. Dubbed Dimensity 8100, the chip will support higher frequencies and will debut on March 1st.
The info comes from notable industry insider Digital Chat Station who says that the 8100 is being launched possibly due to its predecessor’s CPU frequencies being on the more “conservative” side. The Dimensity 8000 is comprised of 4x Cortex-A78 (2.75 GHz) and 4x Cortex-A55 (2.0 GHz) CPU cores.
Judging by the naming scheme, the chip is an upper mid-range unit, making such frequencies indeed slow. The Dimensity 9000, for comparison, peaks out at 3.05GHz. And on top of that, the Dimensity 8000 also uses older ARMv8 designs.
While it’s unlikely that the Dimensity 8100 will be bringing any changes design-wise over the 8000, the frequency boosts should result in better performance.
Manufacturers obviously know of this and DCS says that some have even replaced their Dimensity 8000 orders with Dimensity 8100. A new device with the chip is expected to launch as early as March next year, which is around the same time Dimensity 8000 devices were earlier expected to go live. This makes it possible that MediaTek actually means to replace 8000 with 8100 rather than selling them together, but that’s just a theory.
The AnTuTu benchmark score of the MediaTek Dimensity 8000 reached 750,000 points, surpassing that of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 870, whose score averages at around 700,000 points. The Dimensity 8100 will thus obviously bring in some even more impressive scores.
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