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.
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.