The Dimensity 9000 is MediaTek’s latest 5G chipset to be unveiled at the company’s Summit conference, which is taking place over the next few days. The 4nm process is used for the first time in this TSMC device, which should lead to better performance and lower power consumption. Using a Cortex-X2 core clocked up to 3.05Ghz, the new sub-6GHz 5G chipset is the first smartphone chip to support Bluetooth 5.3.
Specs:
A 1+3+4 configuration is used for the SoC. Cortex-A710 and Cortex-A510 “super cores” clock up to 2.85Ghz in addition to the single Cortex-X2 “ultra core,” which is also supported by a cluster of 4 efficiency Cortex A510 cores clocked at 1.8Ghz. Up to 7500Mbps of RAM rates will be supported by the chipset. With 14MB of cache, Mediatek claims it boosts speed by 7 percent and bandwidth consumption by 25 percent over 8MB of cache, compared to 8MB of cache. The Dimensity 9000 outperformed the “Android flagship” (perhaps the Snapdragon 888) in preliminary Geekbench results, and scored similarly to Apple’s A15 Bionic, which is the latest version of the A15 processor.
There is a new Mali-G710 GPU with ten cores for graphics. Developers can use a new raytracing SDK to introduce additional visual enhancements to get closer to PC-level graphics.
For the first time, Bluetooth 5.3 is being used on smartphone chips to improve communication. Wi-Fi 6E 2×2 is also supported, as well as Bluetooth Audio LE with “Dual-Link True Wireless Stereo Audio. With a new Beidou III-B1C GNSS standard.
ISP (Image Signal Processor) of the Dimensity 9000 can theoretically record 4K HDR video from three cameras concurrently. If three cameras are used, MediaTek claims that it can process 270 frames per second. To produce 18-bit 4K HDR video by simultaneously taking three exposures from each camera over one of three ISPs. Camera sensors up to 320MP can also be supported by the ISP.
As far as 5G modem compatibility is concerned, it adheres to 3GPP Release-16. This modem provides sub-6Ghz 5G with potential maximum download speeds of 7Gbps. With 3CC Carrier Aggregation, despite the fact that mmWave is still absent (300Mhz). Only this smartphone modem supports R16 UL Tx Switching for both SUL and NR-CA connections. In addition, the modem reduces the amount of power used by both active and standby 5G connections.
Up to four times faster than the previous generation. The new APU (AI Processing Unit) outperforms ETHZ in an AI benchmark test. According to MediaTek, the Dimensity 9000 surpasses the Google Tensor by a factor of 16.
The first smartphones powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 9000 are expected to arrive in late Q1 around the world.
