Over the course of the past year, MediaTek has really pivoted from primarily focusing on powering our smart home devices and smart TVs to taking the smartphone fight to Qualcomm. For years, Qualcomm has remained the primary option for smartphone makers to consider when creating and designing flagship phones. In 2021, we saw this dominance begin to shift a bit in MediaTek’s direction with processors like the Dimensity 1200. However, the Dimensity 1200 still fell a bit short of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8-series of processors. Now, MediaTek is taking another stab at the flagship smartphone market with its announcement of the Dimensity 9000. This chipset is the world’s first 4nm-class processor and includes a total of eight Arm Cortex cores, the Mali-G710 GPU, and even Raytracing. But the Dimensity 9000 also offers so much more, including being the first processor to support Bluetooth 5.3, along with using LPDDR5X memory. Efficiency and performance are the names of the game with this latest chipset, with MediaTek promising to provide up to a 20% boost to graphical performance. Meanwhile, the Dimensity 9000 is also the first SoC to make use of Arm’s Cortex-X2 CPU core, clocked at 3GHz. All of this has combined to help MediaTek’s upcoming processor to be the first of its kind to pass the 1,000,000 mark via AnTuTu’s benchmarks.
