MediaTek has just announced the Dimensity 9500, and it brings serious upgrades over its predecessors. The latest chip features MediaTek’s third-generation All Big Core design and ARM’s latest C1 series CPU cores, offering a significant boost to performance and efficiency. The new G1-Ultra GPU also offers a much better gaming experience while drawing substaintially less power.
The chipmaker promises huge upgrades for the Dimensity 9500, but we’re more interested in what the benchmarks have to say. While we are yet to test the chip, company officials have already published its raw performance data from AnTuTu and Geekbench. We’ll also look at the spec sheet and the biggest upgrades to the chip later in this post.
MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Geekbench Score
During the launch event, MediaTek revealed that the Dimensity 9500 scores 4,007 points in single-core and 11,217 points in multi-core on the Geekbench v6.4 platform. That’s a 32% increase in single-core score and 17% in multi-core score over last year’s Dimensity 9400.
| Geekbench v6.4 | |
|---|---|
| Single core | 4,007 |
| Multi core | 11,217 |
Please note that these are official figures from MediaTek, and it’s likely that the chip is tested under optimal conditions. Anyway, we’ll update the score once we do the testing.
Apple’s A19 Pro (4,019/11,054) recently became the first smartphone chip to surpass the 4000 mark in single-core performance, now joined by the Dimensity 9500. The latter also matches Apple’s latest silicon in multi–core performance. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is also expected to put on a tough show against these two chips.
MediaTek Dimensity 9500 AnTuTu Score
MediaTek didn’t share the AnTuTu score for the Dimensity 9500 at the event, but a Vivo executive, Han Boxiao, recently shared the AnTuTu (v11) score for Vivo X300 Pro, which runs the same chipset. The latest Dimensity chipset surpassed the 4 million AnTuTu mark, becoming the first smartphone chip to achieve this feat.
Here’s a breakdown of the AnTuTu score:
| AnTuTu v11 | |
|---|---|
| AnTuTu score | 4,011,932 |
| CPU | 1,043,247 |
| GPU | 1,510,982 |
| Memory | 667,254 |
| UX | 790,449 |
That’s an impressive 40% jump in the overall AnTuTu score from last year’s Vivo X200 Pro, powered by the Dimensity 9400, scoring 2.88 million AnTuTu points.
MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Spec Sheet
| Dimensity 9500 | |
|---|---|
| Announced | September 22, 2025 |
| Process node | TSMC’s 3nm (N3P) |
| CPU | Octa core |
| CPU cluster | 1 x 4.21 GHz — ARM C1-Ultra 3 x 3.50 GHz — ARM C1-Premium 4 x 2.70 GHz — ARM C1-Pro |
| GPU | Arm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12 120FPS raytraced mobile gaming MediaTek HyperEngine Gaming Technology |
| NPU | MediaTek NPU 990 2nd gen Gen-AI Engine |
| Camera | Imagiq 1190 ISP 200MP camera support 30fps continuous focus tracking |
| Connectivity | MediaTek 5G modem Up to 7.5Gbps speed Wi-Fi 7 (peak speed: 7.3Gbps) Bluetooth 6.0 |
The Dimensity 9500 is fabbed using TSMC’s 3nm (N3P) process, which offers slightly better performance and efficiency than the N3E process used for Dimensity 9400. It features ARM’s latest C1 architecture, enabling the chip to deliver up to 32% faster single-core performance. The Ultra core achieves 55% lower power consumption at peak performance, while the overall chip is 30% more power efficient.
There’s a new 12-core Mali-G1 Ultra GPU with significant upgrades. MediaTek says the new GPU offers a 33% performance uplift and 42% better power efficiency at peak performance, and supports 120fps raytracked gaming and 119% ray tracing improvements.
The chip also gets better at AI capabilities, thanks to ninth generation MediaTek NPU 990 with 2nd gen Gen-AI Engine. It enables 2x faster token generation speed, 4K text-to-image generation, and offers up to 56% reduced power consumption at peak AI performance.
The Dimensity 9500 features a new MediaTek Imagiq 1190 ISP with support for 200MP capture with 30fps continuous focus tracking and 4K 60fps portrait video recording with advanced RAW-domain pre-processing. The connectivity portion has also undergone several upgrades, including a 10% power savings with AI traffic prediction, a 50% reduction in latency with AI congestion prediction, a 20% power saving on Wi-Fi, and a 20% improvement in location accuracy. There’s also some boost to the connection speed.
Overall, the Dimensity 9500 looks promising. It has got a faster and efficient CPU, a more powerful GPU with excellent ray tracing capabilities, enhanced AI capabilities, and more robust connectivity features. However, it remains to be seen how this MediaTek’s flagship fares against the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
We’ll soon post a comparison between the Dimensity 9500 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Be sure to follow us on Telegram so you stay up-to-date with the latest happenings in tech.
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