MediaTek has gained an upper hand against Qualcomm by announcing its most advanced smartphone chipset to date, the Dimensity 9500. Mass produced on TSMC’s newest 3nm ‘N3P’ architecture, the SoC brings immense performance and efficiency improvements to the table, with ARM’s next-generation C1 cores allowing the silicon to match Apple’s A19 Pro in both single-core and multi-core results. Here are all the details you have been wanting to know about the Dimensity 9500.
The gains over the Dimensity 9400 are downright impressive, with MediaTek claiming that the Dimensity 9500 can deliver up to a 32 percent improvement in single-threaded performance, with peak power draw reduced by 37 percent
Like the Dimensity 9400, the Dimensity 9500’s CPU cluster features an ‘all performance core’ configuration, but sadly, the new chipset does not have any in-house architecture to showcase to the masses. Instead, it leverages ARM’s latest C1 cores and maintains the same 8-core specifications. The chipset also sports 16MB of L3 cache, plus 10MB of SLC cache, and before you ask, yes, the Dimensity 9500 also supports ARM’s latest SME 2 (Scalable Matrix Extension) instructions set. The CPU details are mentioned below.
1 x ARM C1-Ultra (2MB L2 cache) running at 4.21GHz
3 x ARM C1-Premium (1MB L2 cache) running at 3.50GHz
4 x ARM C1-Pro (512KB L2 cache) running at 2.70GHz
MediaTek also revealed that the Dimensity 9500 obtains a single-core and multi-core score of 4,007 and 11,217 points, respectively, making it up to 32 percent faster than the Dimensity 9400 in compute performance. We also noticed that these results match the A19 Pro in both single-threaded and multi-threaded categories. Previously, we had reported that Apple’s flagship SoC delivered the best performance in Geekbench 6 while flaunting the best ‘performance per watt’ attributes.
Regarding efficiency, the Dimensity 9500 consumes 32 percent less peak power than the Dimensity 9400, with an app launch reaction speed of 50ms and a deviation of only 10ms.
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