New tip suggests Dimensity 9500’s CPU will cross 4 GHz threshold

2024-12-30

MediaTek ushered in a new era in its chipset architecture with the Dimensity 9300 and its all-big CPU cores. That was followed by the Dimensity 9400 which also utilized an all-big core CPU architecture with the same 1+3+4 formation and now noted tipster Digital Chat Station is here to fill us in on the upcoming Dimensity 9500’s CPU design.

As per the new report, MediaTek will switch to a 2+6 CPU architecture with 2x Cortex-X930 “Travis” prime cores and 6x Cortex-A730 "Gelas" performance cores. The 2+6 CPU architecture is also used by Qualcomm in its Snapdragon 8 Elite chip.

More impressively, those prime CPU cores in the Dimensity 9500 will reportedly offer a peak clock frequency of up to 4GHz. Dimensity 9500 will be built on TSMC’s N3P process (3nm), which promises improved power efficiency and will use ARM’s Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) which should deliver improved multi-thread performance.

Given that the Dimensity 9400 was announced back in October, we're likely several months away from the Dimensity 9500's launch.

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