MediaTek’s latest phone chip is the Dimensity 9400, and this one takes the silicon war to the 3nm turf. But its AI goals are an even more ambitious.
MediaTek is opening the floodgates of next-generation flagship Android phones and tablets with its new silicon. The latest from the Taiwanese company is the Dimensity 9400 chip, which will start appearing inside Android devices in the last quarter of 2024.
The list of upgrades is quite comprehensive for this one and across the board. To start things off, the Dimensity 9400 shifts to TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process node, marking a generational upgrade over its 4nm-based predecessor.
Thanks to the aforementioned shift, the Dimensity 9400 is claimed to deliver a 40% higher energy efficiency while also boosting single-core CPU output by 35% and multicore performance by 28%.
Once again, we are getting an all-big-core design with no efficiency cores. Leading the charge is a prime Arm Cortex-X925 core buzzing at up to 3.62GHz, a trio of Cortex-X4 cores (3.3GHz), and a quartet of Arm Cortex-A720 cores with a peak clock speed of 2.4GHz.
The more impressive set of improvements appears to have been made in the graphics department. The new 12-core Immortalis G925 GPU delivers 41% higher raw performance output and also enhances the ray tracing output by an impressive 40%.
