Qualcomm unveiled its flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor last month. Now, the American chipmaker’s rival MediaTek has announced its flagship chipset. The Dimensity 9300 is the successor to the Dimensity 9200 / 9200+. It arrives with a host of improvements and changes. The processor is expected to power premium smartphones from various brands. Let’s delve into the technicalities of the Dimensity 9300.
MediaTek Dimensity 9300 SoC details
The Dimensity 9300 is based on TSMC’s third-generation 4nm process. The configuration comprises of a prime Cortex-X4 core clocked at 3.25GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores at 2.85GHz, and four Cortex-A720 cores ticking at 2.0GHz. The single-core and multi-core performances are said to be improved by 15 and 40 percent respectively. The chipset has an Immortalis-G720 GPU onboard that is claimed to offer 46 percent increased performance in hardware ray tracing compared to the previous generation.
The Dimensity 9300 supports a hardware-based ray tracing engine and variable rate rendering technology. MediaTek also said that it has worked with game developers to optimize ray tracing in games to offer an immersive visual experience. The processor also has an APU 790 for AI processing power
The Dimensity 9300 is capable of supporting WQHD display resolution at 180Hz and 4K up to 120Hz. In terms of photography, the processor will support up to 320MP camera sensors. It will also support always-on HDR video recording up to 4K resolution at 60fps and 4K at 30fps with cinematic mode. There is an Imagiq 900 ISP. The Dimensity 9300 is also said to support Ultra HDR format in Android 14. On the hardware front, the processor supports LPDDR5T RAM and UFS 4 storage technology.
The MediaTek Dimensity 9300 comes with WiFi-7 with an integrated Xtra Range Technology for better long-range connectivity. It also supports sub-6GHz, mmWave, 5G, 4×4 MIMO, and Bluetooth 5.4.
Vivo’s upcoming X100 series is confirmed to be powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 processor. It is expected to be on the standard X100 variant.
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