Bucking modern convention, MediaTek’s latest flagship SoC is comprised entirely of big, beefy cores.
The trend in modern hybrid microarchitecture design is to pair high performance cores for heavy lifting, with lower power cores for lighter duty workloads. Going this route allows chip makers and designers to balance performance with power efficiency, and it’s worked well in various ARM-based designs as well as Intel’s Alder Lake and Raptor Lake silicon. Then there’s MediaTek with its fancy new Dimensity 9300 SoC that’s sheds conventional design and goes all-in with big, beefy cores.The „All Big Core“ design is an interesting and bold choice for sure. It’s also comparatively unique, which MediaTek hopes will give it an edge while going up against stalwarts like Qualcomm and Apple. And of course the Dimensity 9300 brings some AI chops to the flagship fight as well.
„The Dimensity 9300 is MediaTek’s most powerful flagship chip yet, bringing a huge boost in raw computing power to flagship smartphones with our groundbreaking All Big Core design,“ said Joe Chen, President at MediaTek. „This unique architecture, combined with our upgraded on-chip AI Processing Unit, will usher in a new era of generative AI applications as developers push the limits with edge AI and hybrid AI computing capabilities.“So what exactly are we looking at here? The Dimensity 9300 sports a 4+4 design (sort of) consisting of a single Cortex-X4 clocked at 3.
