Highlights:
- MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ is endowed with higher peak clocking performance – a whopping 3.70 GHz peak clock speed, making it an eligible choice for high-performance smartphones.
- The chip has an enhanced GPU performance and is said to have a very advanced AI engine usable in conjunction with LLMs, SLMs, and LMMs for elevating user experience.
- The minor changes were an issue with those who claimed such small improvements would hardly change the market dynamics.
MediaTek announced the release of the Dimensity 9400+ today, a total upgrade of its flagship Dimensity 9400 chip. Aimed at increasing high-end smartphone performance, it features higher CPU and GPU clock speeds. The new chip is set to change people’s perceptions of MediaTek, which is often associated with budget devices, especially in the USA. The Dimensity 9400+ has the chance of powering flagship phones like the upcoming OPPO Find X8 series and Xiaomi’s Redmi K80 Ultra. However, it will require more than some small upgrades to compete with competitors such as Qualcomm.
Core Configuration and Camera and Multimedia
The Dimensity 9400+ as stated before is an upgrade from its previous iterations and thus has a higher peak clock speed of 3.70 GHz from its previous 3.63 GHz, which is a slight increase in performance than anything. The chip also retains its previous core configuration with the same octa-core configuration, with one Arm Cortex-X925 core, three Cortex-X4 cores, and four Cortex-A720 cores. The Dimensity 9400+ also incorporates the Imagiq 1080 ISP, leveraging QPD technology to improve light capture, faster and better focus and provide a high-resolution image output.
GPU Enhancements and Advanced AI Capabilities
The chip’s GPU also receives a minor frequency bump, improving graphical performance and better visual experience. It also is supposed to incorporate MediaTek’s advanced AI engine that supports a large set of Large Language Models (LLM), Small Language Models (SLM), and Multimodal Large Language Models (LMM). All of these enable features like AI-powered translation, text writing, media generation and other such facilities.
Conclusion
The incremental improvements that it brings compared to its predecessor, some critics believe are not enough to significantly shift the market dynamics to MediaTek’s favour. If the company wishes to be considered more than a budget chip maker, the Dimensity 9400+ might not be the best bet moving forward, all is however to be seen in the market performance it delivers.
