The new chipset promises slightly improved gaming performance and greater 5G power efficiency.
MediaTek has flooded the smartphone market with chipsets that aren’t much different when it comes to features and performance. The company’s latest chip, Dimensity 8450, is basically a Dimensity 8400 with a few minor improvements that probably don’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
For starters, MediaTek’s new Dimensity 8450 chipset is based on TSMC’s second-generation 4nm node, just like its predecessor, Dimensity 8400. On top of that, it features the same octa-core configuration: 1x Cortex-X4 core clocked at 3.25 GHz, 3x Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 3.0 GHz, and 4x Cortex-A520 cores clocked at 2.1GHz.
Additionally, the chipset uses the same Mali-G720 MC7 GPU (graphics processing unit), which is clocked at 1300 MHz.
