MediaTek has officially confirmed that the Dimensity 9400+ will launch on April 11. It’s a minor refresh of last year’s Dimensity 9400, but the real upgrade is coming with the Dimensity 9500. And if a new leak is accurate, we may already know what to expect from MediaTek’s next flagship chip.
A now-deleted post from tipster Digital Chat Station suggests that the Dimensity 9500 will be built on TSMC’s N3P process and feature an all-big-core ARM CPU design.
Dimensity 9500 Specifications
The core configuration reportedly includes one Travis core, three Alto cores, and four Gelas cores, while the GPU is said to be the Immortalis Drage.
According to the leak, Travis and Alto are part of ARM’s upcoming X9 generation and support Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) which should deliver improved multi-thread performance.
Meanwhile, Gelas is believed to be ARM’s next-gen A7 series core. Based on the leak, the Dimensity 9500 will have a 1+3+4 CPU setup with:
- 1x Cortex-X930
- 3x Cortex-X930 (lower clocked)
- 4x Cortex-A730
That’s a shift from a previous leak which suggested a 2+6 CPU structure for 9500 consisting of two Travis cores and six Gelas cores. It was “early specifications” for the chip though, so it looks like MediaTek’s plans have evolved since then.
The Dimensity 9500 is expected to launch in mid-2025 which will give it a head start over over Qualcomm’s next flagship chip. The Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 is rumored to debut in October 2024.
Interestingly, a leak from earlier today suggests that MediaTek is also working on a second all-big-core Dimensity chip. Allegedly called the Dimensity 9450, it will reportedly share the same 3nm process from TSMC. However, details about it are relatively scarce at the moment.
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