MediaTek Boosts Mid-Differ SoCs with Flagship Smarts
MediaTek merely launched the Dimensity 8400 cell processor. Following a up to date progress in flagship SoCs, the mannequin new chip is powered solely by high-performance cores, with out the smaller effectivity cores. Exterior the CPU, the mannequin new chip furthermore brings flagship selections to gaming, pictures, and, in any case, synthetic intelligence.
After pioneering an all “enormous core” format processor in 2023 and repeating the strategy with the Dimensity 9400 this 12 months, MediaTek doubled (tripled?) down on the plan with the mannequin new mid-range chip: The Dimensity 8400. The mannequin new chip ensures additional effectivity for day-to-day duties, with an estimated 41% uplift in multi-core CPU effectivity.
| MediaTek Dimensity 8400 | Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 | Samsung Exynos 1480 | MediaTek Dimensity 8300 | Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime core | 1x Cortex-A725 @ 3.25 GHz | 1x Cortex-X4 @ 2.6 GHz | 1× Cortex-A715 @ 3.35 GHz | 1x Cortex-X2 @ 2.91 GHz | |
| Effectivity core | 3x Cortex-A725 | 4x Cortex A720 @ 2.6 GHz | 4x Cortex A78 @ 2.75 GHz | 3× Cortex-A715 @ 3.2 GHz | 3x Cortex A710 @ 2.49 GHz |
| Effectivity core | 4x Cortex-A725 | 3x Cortex-A520 @ 1.9 GHz | 4x Cortex-A55 @ 2 GHz | 4× Cortex-A510 @ 2.2 GHz | 4x Cortex-A510 @ 1.8 GHz |
| RAM | LPDDR5x-8533 4x 16-bit @ 4266 MHz (68.2.4 GB/s) |
LPDDR5x-8400 4x 16-bit @ 4200 MHz (67.2 GB/s) |
LPDDR5-6400 2x 16-bit @ 3200 MHz (25.6 GB/s) |
LPDDR5x-8533 4x 16-bit @ 4266 MHz (68.2.4 GB/s) |
LPDDR5-6400 4x 16-bit @ 3200 MHz (51.2 GB/s) |
| GPU | 7x ARM Mali-G720 (2329.6 GFLOPS) |
Adreno 732 (1459 GFLOPS) |
AMD RDNA3 (332 GFLOPS) |
6x ARM Mali-G615 (2150.4 GFLOPS) |
Adreno 725 (1188 GFLOPS) |
| 5G modem | MediaTek (5.17 Gbps) |
Snapdragon X63 (5/3.5 Gbps) |
Exynos 5328 (5/1.28 Gbps) |
MediaTek (5.17 Gbps) |
Snapdragon X62 (4.4/1.6 Gbps) |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth 5.4 |
Wi-Fi 7 Bluetooth 5.4 |
Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth 5.3 |
Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth 5.4 |
Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth 5.3 |
| Course of node | TSMC N4P | TSMC N4P | Samsung 4LPP | TSMC N4P | TSMC N4 |
As a replacement of utilizing the smaller (and slower) effectivity CPU cores, MediaTek designed the Dimensity 8400 with an all “enormous core” design. The chip selections eight ARM Cortex-A725 at as quite a bit as 3.25 GHz. These A725 cores are divided into three tiers, with fully completely completely different parts of L2 cache reminiscence: 1 core with 1 MB, 3 cores with 512 KB, and 4 cores with 256 KB.
To feed these cores, the Dimensity 8400 helps the newest LPDDR5x-8533 RAM common, whereas storage duties are dealt with by the latest-generation UFS 4 common.
MediaTek Dimensity 8400: Premium Smartphone Chip Decisions / © MediaTek
For graphics rendering, the Dimensity 8400 packs 7 ARM Mali-G720 GPU cores. MediaTek touts 24% elevated effectivity and 42% elevated energy effectivity as in contrast with the earlier interval Dimensity 8300 chip. Whereas the GPU wouldn’t help ray tracing, the Taiwanese company ensures easy rasterization effectivity.
In true 2024 vogue, the mannequin new MediaTek mid-ranger helps predominant AI apps because of its NPU, with promised help for agentic capabilities. Completely completely different cores on the Dimensity 8400 trickle-down selections discovered on the flagship 9000 sequence, similar to improved processing for picture seize, dynamic 5G/Wi-Fi switching, and extra.
Consistent with MediaTek, the mannequin new Dimensity 8400 must return to market shortly, with the primary telephones promised “by [the] finish of 2024”. Will almost definitely be attention-grabbing to see whether or not or not or not Qualcomm will undertake an analogous “enormous core” design for its Snapdragon 7 chips.
