Oddly configured Dimensity 9300 SoC throttles during stress test losing 46% of its performance،
Earlier this year, we told you about the unusual configuration of MediaTek’s new flagship Dimensity 9300 chipset. The octa-core processor consists of four Cortex-X4 Prime processor cores and four Cortex-A720 Performance processor cores. There are no low-power CPU cores like other application CPUs. While this means the Dimensity 9300 SoC is powerful, it also means the chipset is prone to overheating.
The Dimensity 9300 throttled its performance by 46% in the CPU throttling test.
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Worse, the chip was tested on the Vivo X100 Pro, which features a vapor chamber which is a heat pipe used to dissipate heat to the coldest area of the chamber and away from the chipset. Even though the Dimensity 9300 is produced using TSMC’s energy-efficient 4nm N4P process node, chip throttling began in just two minutes.