Next month we are going to see some powerful application processors unveiled including Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and MediaTek’s Dimensity 9400. The former will sport two Cortex-X925 high-performance CPU cores clocked as fast as 4.26GHz and six Cortex-A725 balanced CPU cores running at a clock speed of 2.8GHz. There are no efficiency cores which is a configuration that seemed to gain acceptance last year with the launch of MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300. The latter brought in over $1 billion in revenue for MediaTek in 2023.
MediaTek is returning to the balls-to-the-wall configuration with the Dimensity 9400 AP which could be powering Oppo’s Find X8 in October. This chipset is believed to feature one Cortex-X5 high-performance CPU Core running up to 3.63GHz, three powerful Cortex-X4 CPU cores clocked up to 2.80GHz, and four Cortex-A725 balanced CPU cores running at a clock speed of up to 2.1GHz. Again, there are no efficiency cores although the Cortex-A725 is kind of, sort of being used to handle everyday tasks.
The Dimensity 9400 AP outperforms the Apple A18 chipset in the GeekBench multi-core benchmark test. | Image credit-Notebook check.net
