MediaTek just unveiled its latest flagship chipset – the MediaTek Dimensity 9500. It boasts next-generation Arm CPU cores and carries over the All Big Core design as the Dimensity 9400.
MediaTek Dimensity 9500
The MediaTek Dimensity 9500 features an Arm C1-Ultra core clocked at 4.21GHz. This is joined by three C1-Premium cores and four C1-Pro cores.
These are said to improve performance of up to 32% in single-core and 17% multi-core performance than the Dimensity 9400. The Prime Ultra core achieves up to 55% lower power consumption at peak performance.
The chip also supports Armv9.3 with new SME2 (Scalable Matrix Extensions) instructions that deliver faster AI perception performance.
The Dimensity 9500 supports the new 4-channel UFS 4.1 storage, which is said to deliver 100% faster sequential data speeds.
It is equipped with the new Arm G1-Ultra GPU and supports Vulkan’s ray tracing pipeline and Unreal Engine 5 MegaLights and Nanite. The GPU is said to deliver up to 33% higher peak performance and 42% improved power efficiency than its predecessor. It also has twice the ray tracing units and offers up to 112% faster ray tracing performance.
MediaTek also features the ninth-generation NPU 990 with Generative AI Engine 2.0 and BitNet 1.58-bit large model processing with up to 33% reduced power consumption. The lower power consumption is thanks to an integrated compute-in-memory architecture.
The chipset has the new MediaTek Imagiq 1190 ISP that supports RAW-domain processing of up to 200MP and supports the latest MiraVision Adaptive Display feature.
It has a 10% and 20% lower power consumption in 5G and Wi-Fi, respectively.
MediaTek has revealed that the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 will debut in flagship smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2025. Among these are expected to be the vivo X300 series and OPPO Find X9 Pro.
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