- MediaTek Dimensity 9500 SoC is officially launching on September 22.
- MediaTek officially confirmed the same on Weibo soon after Qualcomm officiated September 23 as the day when Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 makes its debut.
- It is based on 3nm technology and features an all-big-core architecture maxing at 4.21GHz.
The next-generation MediaTek Dimensity 9500 SoC is officially launching on September 22, based on the update coming straight from the chipmaker. This announcement comes after Qualcomm officially confirmed the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 on September 23. This would give MediaTek a day’s head start. Here’s more about the upcoming flagship chipset in the business.
Dimensity 9500: MediaTek’s next big leap
Dimensity 9500 SoC, the next-gen chipset, is said to heat the competition in the Android smartphone SoC space. The chipset is said to attract an all-big-core CPU architecture, thus improving upon Dimensity 9400 and 9400+ that made their splash last year. In fact, Vivo X300 and Vivo X300 Pro are reportedly the first adopters of the Dimensity 9500 SoC, reaching an instance 4 million points on AnTuTu v11.
Expected specifications of the Dimensity 9500 SoC
According to the various sources, the Dimensity 9500 SoC will use an all-big-core setup as aforementioned. There’s 1x 4.21GHz Travis plus 3x 3.50GHz Alto cores plus 4x 2.7GHz Gelas cores. Here, the first two are based on ARM’s A9 series, while Gelas is based on the A7 series performance core.
Moving on, the chipset will get a new Mali-G1-Ultra MC12 GPU touted to improve energy efficiency by 40 percent, mobile ray tracing performance by 40 percent, and finally, the ray tracing frames are expected to reach and breach the 100fps limit.
The flagship chipset from MediaTek will likely see 16MB of L3 cache, UFS 4.1 4-Lane storage, plus 4x LPDDR5x RAM beating at a frequency of 10667Mbps. The NPU 9.0 on-board Dimensity 9500 SoC reportedly reaches 100TOPS, if we are not wrong.
The chipset actually surfaced on AnTuTu and Geekbench a while ago. For instance, Oppo Find X9 Pro (PLG110) with the so-called Dimensity 9500 SoC sees Geekbench scores of 3,393 and 9,974 points on single and multi-core tests. The AnTuTu v11 scores on-board yet unreleased X300 series soars to 4.011million, and these are just a few numbers to put forward.
MediaTek is facing the next-gen game — 2nm Dimensity 9600 SoC
September 22 marks the day when MediaTek Dimensity 9500 SoC rolls out, although it needs to be officially confirmed as of now. However, this doesn’t mean MediaTek is solely focusing on this year’s flagship chipset. In fact, the Dimensity 9600 SoC, likely launching at the same time next year, is expected to jack up the fabrication process from 3nm to 2nm.
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MediaTek will be leveraging TSMC’s 2nm process, making it one of the first adopters after Samsung, to fab next year’s Dimensity 9600 SoC. This will ultimately cause a performance boost, obviously. The process is known to increase logic density by 1.2 times, translating to 36 percent reduced power consumption and 18 percent increase in performance compared to the existing 3nm tech.
Anyway, MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC based on 2nm will be launched next year and remains under mystery as of now. For this year, we have MediaTek Dimensity 9500 SoC likely to blow the competition in contrast with Apple’s A19 Series, Exynos 2600, and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, to name a few. Watch out this space as we bring the latest on the chipset as it prepares for launch on September 22.
