MediaTek has quietly added a new chip to its mid-range lineup. The Dimensity 7100 is now listed on the company’s official website as a 5G chipset built on TSMC’s 6nm process.
At a basic level, the Dimensity 7100 follows a familiar formula. It features an eight-core CPU setup, comprising four Cortex-A78 performance cores clocked at up to 2.4 GHz and four Cortex-A55 efficiency cores running at 2.0 GHz.
The setup isn’t significantly different from previous Dimensity 7000-series chips, but MediaTek claims users should experience faster app launches and smoother multitasking compared to older mid-range processors.
Graphics are handled by the Arm Mali-G610 GPU, which is up to 8 percent faster than the GPU found in the Dimensity 7050.
Dimensity 7100 is touted for efficiency
One of the bigger themes here is efficiency. MediaTek says the Dimensity 7100 is around 5 percent more power-efficient during app usage, up to 16 percent more efficient during multimedia playback, and up to 23 percent more efficient on the modem side. The integrated 3GPP Release 16 5G modem supports download speeds of up to 3.3Gbps and uses MediaTek’s UltraSave 3.0+ technology to reduce battery drain during extended 5G sessions.
The chip also checks the expected boxes for modern hardware support. It works with LPDDR5 RAM at speeds of up to 5500Mbps and supports UFS 3.1 storage. Wireless options include Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4. On the display side, the Dimensity 7100 supports 10-bit color depth and HDR video playback.
As for the optics, the chip supports sensors up to 200 megapixels, along with HDR imaging, multi-frame noise reduction, and hardware-accelerated face detection. According to the company, portrait detection and autofocus performance have seen notable improvements compared to previous generations, at least on paper.
There’s also support for 45W fast charging and the UFCS universal charging protocol, alongside a new power management system designed to work at lower voltages for slightly longer battery life.
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