MediaTek has officially launched its latest flagship smartphone processor, the Dimensity 9400 SoC, on Wednesday. The company had previously announced the mobile platform’s introduction in October and provided some preliminary information. Now, it has elaborated on the specifications and capabilities of this new processor.
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The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 has offically been announced. 📱
Here are the top 9 things you need to know about this flagship SoC.
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— Smartprix (@Smartprix) October 9, 2024
MediaTek asserts that the Dimensity 9400 offers a 35 percent increase in single-core performance compared to its predecessor. This new SoC is positioned to compete with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Apple A18 series chipsets.
The Dimensity 9400 is a fourth-generation flagship processor designed using Arm’s v9.2 CPU architecture, along with dedicated GPU and neural processing unit (NPU) architectures.
It is manufactured using TSMC’s advanced second-generation 3nm fabrication process. In line with the established big core design, it comprises one Cortex-X925 core with a peak clock speed of 3.62GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores, and four Cortex-A720 cores.
MediaTek claims that this CPU architecture delivers 35 percent enhanced single-core performance and 28 percent improved multi-core performance relative to the Dimensity 9300 SoC, while also achieving 40 percent greater power efficiency.
Furthermore, the Dimensity 9400 integrates MediaTek’s eighth-generation NPU, which supports on-device LoRA training, on-device video generation, and developer tools for Agentic artificial intelligence (AI).
The company has stated that this SoC can achieve up to 80 percent faster performance for large language model (LLM) prompts while maintaining 35 percent better power efficiency than its predecessor.
MTK Dimensity 9400 Is Here and I am Super Excited 😁
🟡It uses 2nd Gen TSMC’s 3nm process and 2nd generation all-large core CPU architecture after Dimensity 9300.
🟡1x Arm Cortex-X925, 2MB L2 cache, up to 3.63 GHz
🟡3x Arm Cortex-X4, 1MB L2 cache
🟡4x Arm Cortex-A720, 512KB L2… pic.twitter.com/KHUL7k7hLU
— Sajid Khan (@msfbeast007) October 9, 2024
Regarding the GPU, the mobile platform features the 12-core Arm Immortalis-G925, which is reported to deliver 40 percent faster ray tracing performance compared to its predecessor, along with a 41 percent improvement in peak performance and a 44 percent reduction in power consumption.
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