Last year’s Dimensity 9300 AP was a gamble since it used a configuration that did not include any low-power efficiency cores. Instead, the AP was made up of four Cortex-X4 high-performance CPU cores clocked up to 3.25 GHz, and four Cortex-A720 performance-efficiency CPU cores with a clock speed of up to 2.0 GHz. Vivo used the SoC to power the X100 line and the Dimensity 9300 AP generated over $1 billion in revenue for MediaTek last year.
The Dimensity 9400 will use two of these Arm CPU cores, the Cortex-A925 and the Cprtex-A725. | Image credit-Arm
Arm says that the Cortex-X925 delivers up to 46% more performance than the Cortex-X4. The Cortex-A725 scored a 35% hike in performance efficiency over the Cortex-A720 and shows performance boosts for AI and gaming. The Dimensity 9400 will feature the Immortalis-G925 MC12 GPU clocked at 1,612 MHz.
TSMC will build the Dimensity 9400 using its second-generation 3nm node (N3E).
