MediaTek has officially announced that its Dimensity 9400 flagship chipset will be launched on October 9. The “AI Chip Leap” slogan for the chipset suggests that it will enable upcoming flagships such as the Oppo Find X8 and Find X8 Pro to offer more demanding AI features.
The Dimensity 9400 will continue the all-large-core CPU design of its predecessor and adopt the ARM ‘BlackHawk’ CPU architecture, which reportedly offers improved performance. For fabrication, Mediatek is using TSMC’s N3E (3nm) process node.
The Dimensity 9400 uses a 3.63 GHz Cortex-X925 super core, 3 2.80 GHz X4 large cores, and 4 2.10 GHz A725 cores. For graphics, it uses the Mali-G925-Immortalis MC12. The chipset also reportedly supports the industry’s fastest 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X memory, which should enable smartphones to offer faster loading times for heavy apps and games.
According to NanoReview, the chipset scores 2874 and 8969 in Geekbench single and multi-core tests respectively. Speaking of graphics, the chipset reached 134fps in the GFX Aztec 1440P off-screen Vulkan test, which is 86% higher than the Apple A18 Pro that powers the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. It suggests that the upcoming chipset from MediaTek has the potential to offer a major improvement in gaming performance.
It’s worth mentioning that the score was also 41% higher than last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station also previously revealed that the GPU performance was 30% higher than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in the 3D Mark test while the power consumption was 40% lower.
The ray tracing performance has been improved by nearly 20% compared with the previous generation. MediaTek offered a strong graphics performance last year and this year seems to be no different. The company is also working on a new ray tracing technology for its smartphone chips, which is reportedly comparable to the top ray tracing technology OMM (ray tracing accelerator) on PC. Not to mention, it has the potential to enable smartphone makers to take the graphics quality in games to the next level.
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