MediaTek officially announces flagship SoC 'Dimensity 9300' comparable to Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Chip maker MediaTek has officially announced its flagship SoC for smartphones, Dimensity 9300 . Benchmark scores indicate that the performance is comparable to Qualcomm's ' Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 '.

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MediaTek President Joe Chen said of the Dimensity 9300, 'It's MediaTek's most powerful flagship chip ever, with a breakthrough all-big-core design that significantly increases the raw computing power of flagship smartphones. This unique architecture is combined with MediaTek's upgraded on-chip AI processing unit, ushering in a new era of generative AI applications as developers push the limits with edge AI and hybrid AI computing capabilities.'

As President Chen mentioned about AI, the APU's 790AI processor integrated into the Dimensity 9300 is designed to significantly improve the performance and energy efficiency of generated AI, enabling faster and more secure edge computing. It is said that there is.

Specifically, compared to the previous generation model, power consumption has been reduced by 45% while integer and floating point arithmetic performance has been doubled. The processing speed has been increased by 8 times, and it is possible to generate an image within 1 second with Stable Diffusion.

Additionally, the confusion-precision INT4 quantization technology developed by MediaTek, combined with NeuroPilot memory hardware compression, enables more efficient use of memory bandwidth and significantly reduces memory requirements for large-scale AI models.

The GPU is equipped with Arm Immortalis-G720, which greatly enhances the mobile gaming experience. Compared to the previous model Dimensity 9200, GPU performance has improved by about 46% with the same level of power consumption, and if the performance is the same as the previous model, power consumption has been reduced by 40%. This allows for significant performance improvements without sacrificing battery life.

Furthermore, by combining low-power AI-ISP with always-on HDR at up to 4K resolution and 60fps, photography and video recording are also improved. It also supports 4K cinematic mode at 30fps with real-time tracking bokeh for enhanced professional-quality bokeh, AI noise reduction for 4K, and AI processing for RAW photos and videos.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is a competing SoC, but benchmark scores indicate that it has almost the same performance.

Devices equipped with Dimensity 9300 are expected to be released on the market after the end of 2023.

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