Smartphones, especially the high-end ones, have progressed to a point that it doesn’t really matter which processor they have as they are all really fast for day-to-day tasks. Only one chip can be crowned as the best though and MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 is vying hard for the top spot.
Announced yesterday, the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 features an unusual CPU setup with four Cortex-X4 large cores, four Cortex-A720 performance cores, and no efficiency cores.
Despite this unconventional design, MediaTek says its latest chip for flagship Android phones consumes 33 percent less power than the Dimensity 9200.
According to benchmark scores leaked by tipster @Tech_Reve, a reference device powered by the Dimensity 9300 achieved 2,289 points on the single-core test and 7,997 points on the multicore test.
Given that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is apparently more expensive than the 8 Gen 2, the Dimensity 9300 is a good option for those manufacturers who don’t want to increase the price of their flagship phones.
Generally speaking, better single-core performance will make a phone feel snappy during everyday activities such as opening apps and web browsing, whereas multi-core performance comes into play when your phone is performing demanding tasks such as running a game or when you are multitasking.
The chip features a 12-core Arm Immortalis-G720 GPU, which MediaTek says will allow phones powered by it to offer console-level illumination effects. The company claims that the GPU is faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in some tests such as GFXBench Manhattan 3.1.
