MediaTek has officially confirmed the date for its upcoming flagship chip reveal. The company’s Weibo post announced a launch event scheduled for September 22 at 14:00pm (local time). The upcoming Dimensity 9500 is set to power premium smartphones from Vivo and Oppo, and later on from other brands.
Dimensity 9500 specifications and performance
As per reports, the Dimensity 9500 will adopt a 1+3+4 CPU configuration made up of one Travis core clocked at 4.21GHz, three Alto cores at 3.50GHz, and four Gelas cores at 2.7GHz. Both Travis and Alto belong to Arm’s new X9 line, while Gelas are part of the updated A7 series.
The chip will also feature a Mali-G1 Ultra MC12 GPU built on a new architecture, promising over 40 percent efficiency gains and more than 40 percent improvement in ray tracing capabilities. Early figures suggest that ray-traced gaming could exceed 100 frames per second, signalling a significant upgrade for mobile gaming.
The platform includes 16MB of L3 cache, 10MB SLC, SME instruction set support, and NPU 9.0 with an expected 100 TOPS of AI performance. Memory support extends to LPDDR5x at 10667Mbps along with UFS 4.1 storage for faster data handling.
Vivo’s X300 series will be the first to introduce the Dimensity 9500 to the market. Last week, Vivo’s product manager revealed benchmark results for the X300 Pro satellite communication variant, which crossed the 4 million mark on AnTuTu, making it the first Android device to achieve this milestone. However, the Oppo Find X9 Pro satellite communication version’s AnTuTu score, which was confirmed today, has even surpassed that of the X300 Pro satellite version.
Rumours are rife that the Vivo X300 series will debut on Oct. 13, whereas the Oppo Find X9 lineup may break cover on Oct. 21 in China.
MediaTek Dimensity 9600 could be a 2nm chip
Interestingly, MediaTek also disclosed progress on its 2nm flagship SoC, expected to enter mass production by the second half of 2026, likely as the Dimensity 9600.
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