The rumor mill for upcoming flagship processors continues to churn. Hot on the heels of leaked results for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, MediaTek‘s contender, the Dimensity 9400, has made an appearance on Geekbench.
This time, however, it’s not a traditional CPU test but an AI benchmark score that’s surfaced on the benchmarking platform.
The results show the Dimensity 9400 scoring 1,501 points in Single Precision, 1,906 points in Half Precision, and 1,793 points in Quantized tasks. Since Geekbench’s AI benchmark is a new tool, we don’t have enough data to compare these results against competitors like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
What’s notable is that the benchmark confirms the octa-core CPU configuration of the Dimensity 9400. The setup is a three-cluster affair, with a single high-performance Cortex-X5 core running at 3.63 GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores at 2.80 GHz for additional power, and four Cortex-A725 cores at 2.10 GHz for handling everyday tasks.
At a glance, the 3.63 GHz peak speed for Dimensity 9400 seems underwhelming compared to the competition. Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 rumors suggest a top clock of 4.32 GHz, and Apple’s A18 series supposedly reaches 4.04 GHz.
However, if we look at previous leaks, the SoC is still claimed to offer 30% performance improvement, 35% better energy efficiency, and a whopping 40% uplift in AI performance. Now is that improvement enough to beat or level the play with Qualcomm and Apple rivals? We must wait to see.
The wait might not be long now since the first phone with the Dimensity 9400 is expected to launch in early October. It’s the Vivo X200 series that’s rumored to be the first. It will then likely be followed by the Oppo Find X8 line which also uses the same chip.
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