MediaTek on March 1 launched the new Dimensity 8000 series chips, following which Chen Junhong, deputy GM of the company’s wireless communication division said in an interview that the flagship mobile processor market is no longer a monopoly.
This is an obvious reference to the MediaTek Dimensity 9000, which was announced late last year, and has recently been found to outperform Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in some benchmark tests.
Chen also emphasized that high-end and flagship processors are no longer one and the same, pointing toward the Dimensity 8000 series which he declared caters to the high-end market, while the Dimensity 9000 is MediaTek’s entry into the flagship market for the first time.
The Dimensity 8100 inherits the excellent design of the Dimensity 9000, although it does not have the so-called top performance, he added (via IT Home). The aim with it is to allow high-end market consumers to enjoy a flagship experience across scenarios like games, imaging, display, and communication.
“The first terminal product of the Dimensity 9000 should have been officially released. It is MediaTek’s goal to stand firm as the flagship. We will continue to work hard to launch better flagship and high-end products,” concluded Chen.
The Dimensity 8100 is an octa-core unit, four of which are Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.85GHz, while for the Dimensity 8000, the same cores max out at 2.75GHz. Both chips use the Mali-G610 MC6 GPU assisted by MediaTek’s HyperEngine 5.0 gaming technologies for graphics.
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