MediaTek says its latest Dimensity chipset enhances applications like gaming, video capture and generative AI processing
MediaTek has announced the latest flagship mobile chip to its lineup, the Dimensity 9300 chipset. The new chipset has an embedded AI processor — the APU 790 AI — which the company said enhances device performance and improves energy efficiency, enabling better a experience around applications like gaming, video capture and generative AI processing.
The Dimensity 9300, which MediaTek President Joe Chen called the company’s “most powerful flagship chip yet,” supports a few large language models including Meta Platform’s Llama 2, Baichuan 2 and Baidu AI. The chipset modem supports 4CC-CA sub-6 GHz and 8CC-CA mmWave, as well as Wi-Fi 7 speeds up to 6.5 Gbps. It also integrates MediaTek Xtra Range Technology for better long-range connectivity, and faster smartphone tethering speeds compared to other solutions thanks to the company’s Multi-Link Hotspot technology.
“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,” continued Chen.
When it comes to mobile gaming, the latest GPU from Arm — the Arm Immortalis-G720 — allows the Dimensity 9300 to provide almost 46% boost in GPU performance at the same level of power consumption as the Dimensity 9200, said MediaTek. Further, the new chip boasts a 40% reduction in GPU power consumption at the same level of performance as the previous generation chipset. “This provides users with a big performance upgrade without sacrificing battery life,” commented the company, adding further that gamers will expereince “console-level global illumination effects” due to the combination of the chipset’s extreme octa-core CPU design and MediaTek’s second generation hardware raytracing engine.
Earlier this year, MediaTek launched the Dimensity 9200+ in an effort to refresh is 9200 chipset. The 9200+ sports what it calls a single ”ultra-core” Cortex-X3 CPU core operating at up to 3.35 gigahertz, along with three Arm Cortex-A715 cores running at 3.0 gigahertz supported by four Cortex-A150 efficiency cores running at 2.0 gigahertz. In comparison, the 9300 has what MediaTek is calling “big core power” as it is built on TSMC’s third generation 4nm process with four Arm Cortex-X4 cores with operating speeds of up to 3.25GHz and four Cortex-A720 cores operating up to 2.0GHz to maximize performance.
The MediaTek Dimensity 9300 also promises faster display speeds, operating speed and faster memory. Check out the chip’s full specs here.
Devices featuring the Dimensity 9300 chipset will be available in the market by end of 2023.
