MediaTek introduced its flagship mobile chipset, the Dimensity 9500 SoC, in September last year, and has now followed it up with the new Dimensity 9500s. The company has also announced the mid-range Dimensity 8500 chipset.
Like the Dimensity 9500, the new octa-core 9500 also features an ‘all big core’ architecture and is manufactured using a 3nm process.
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The Dimensity 9500s comes with a primary Arm Cortex-X925 Ultra core clocked at 3.73GHz. It also has three Cortex-X4 premium cores and four Cortex-A720 performance cores. For graphics, the chipset gets Immortalis-G925 GPU that supports advanced ray tracing, Adaptive Game Technology 3.0, and Frame Technology 3.0. It includes a core NPU for ‘generative reasoning and multi-modal models’ support.
It gets a MediaTek image processor for real-time motion tracking up to 30fps, 8K 60 full-focus video recording with Dolby Vision HDR, and noise reduction. The chip supports a 320MP camera sensor and a WQHD+ display with a 180Hz refresh rate.
The 9500s chipset also supports LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4 storage. It comes with Wi-Fi 7, dual SIM dual active 5G, GPS, BeiDou, Glonass, Galileo, NavIC, QZSS, Bluetooth 5.4 and MediaTek UltraSave 4.0 power saving technology.
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The Dimensity 8500 also features an all big core CPU design, but is manufactured using the more efficient 4nm process. It is equipped with eight Cortex-A725 cores clocked at up to 3.4GHz. It gets Mali-G720 GPU which is said to deliver 25% better performance and 20% lower power consumption compared to the previous generation.
It supports LPDDR5X 4-channel RAM, UFS 4 storage and comes with MediaTek 8th generation NPU (880) that supports most of the major language and image generation models.
The chipset also offers Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.4, GPS satellite support similar to the flagship 9500s, dual SIM dual active 5G connectivity, and MediaTek UltraSafe 3.0+.
For imaging, the SoC supports a maximum camera sensor of 320MP, supports 4K 60fps video recording, and displays up to WQHD+ resolution and 144Hz refresh rate.