Alongside the more affordable Dimensity 8500, MediaTek also announced the Dimensity 9500s in the event today. The processor sits just below MediaTek’s top Dimensity 9500, and is designed to power sub-flagship phones.
At the heart of the new chip is a flagship-style all-core CPU architecture built on TSMC’s second-generation 3nm manufacturing process. The processor includes a Cortex-X925 core (@3.73GHz), three Cortex-X4 (@3.30GHz), and four Cortex-A720 (@2GHz) cores, and more than 29 billion transistors.
According to the company, the chip supports “super memory compression technology” that helps speed up everyday tasks. MediaTek claims this can improve app launch speeds by up to 44 percent once enabled. The Dimensity 9500s also comes with a large 19MB CPU cache and 10MB of system cache.
Graphics duties are handled by a flagship-grade Immortalis-G925 GPU that supports ray-tracing. The chip can also handle a range of on-device AI tasks without needing an internet connection.
Camera and AI
The 9500s is also built with camera and video features in mind. MediaTek says it includes a high-end autofocus engine, fast capture capabilities, and a semantic segmentation video engine for smarter image processing. On the video side, the chip supports 8K HDR recording with Dolby Vision.
Moving to connectivity, the processors include a 5G Release 17 modem with support for four-carrier aggregation and theoretical download speeds of up to 7Gbps.
It also supports Wi-Fi 7 with speeds up to 6.5Gbps. And MediaTek even highlighted a new Bluetooth feature that allows direct phone-to-phone connections at distances of up to five kilometers without using cellular networks.
MediaTek confirmed that the first phone to use the new processor will be the Redmi Turbo 5 Max. In lab testing, that device reportedly managed to score 3,612,095 points in the AnTuTu benchmark.
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