MediaTek’s highflier Dimensity 9300 chip comes on November 6،
Let the chips fall where they may! MediaTek’s highly anticipated new chip, called Dimensity 9300 (the name of MediaTek’s chip is hilarious; I never remember the Nimbus 2000 flying broomstick from Harry Potter), is due to be officially unveiled in just two weeks. This is going to happen somewhere in China on November 6th. The stakes are high for MediaTek, as this new chip needs to directly compete with the one that Qualcomm just officially introduced – the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. It also needs to stay under control. everything Exynos offers.
The Dimensity 9300 has no secrets to hide about its specs (via 9to5Google). Actual usability testing is the real deal, but it won’t happen as quickly as we’d like. On paper, though, things look pretty interesting: four Cortex-X4 cores (one of them set as the main power at 3.25 GHz, versus the rest at 2.85 GHz), plus four more cores Cortex-A720 at 3 GHz. Sources also indicate that the GPU will consist of an Immortalis G720.
Having four Cortex-X4 cores is no joke, but with great performance comes great heat, as Uncle Ben would tell Peter Parker if Peter Parker were a Dimensity 9300 chip. Prominent tipsters have talked about ‘an alleged issue with the Dimensity 9300 and how it controls (does not control) high temperatures.
MediaTek later called these claims a “rumor” that is “completely false and has no source or factual basis,” so we’ll have to wait until this one is published and see what it’s all about.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 only contains a single Cortex-X4 core
Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 offers a 30% increase in performance and a 20% increase in efficiency compared to its predecessor, the popular Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
The new chip is based on ARM architecture. The main processor core is none other than the Cortex-X4, running at 3.3 GHz (MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 has a total of four, but none of them go to 3.3 GHz).
The rest of the configuration on the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 includes five Kryo Cortex A720 processor performance cores running at speeds as fast as 3.2 GHz and two Cortex A520 efficiency cores with a clock speed peaking at 2.3 GHz.
There is an Adreno GPU integrated into the chipset as well as the Snapdragon up to 3.5 Gbps.
