Emir Bardakçı
October 2024 is going to be very interesting, especially for tech enthusiasts owning mobiles, as two flagship mobile processors are going to fight it out in the ring. MediaTek’s Dimensity 9400 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4-both promising to introduce ground-breaking improvements in performance and power efficiency-are going to be unveiled against each other for the first time ever.
Dimensity 9400: The New Flagship Chip of MediaTek
The leaks also say the Dimensity 9400 will launch with vivo X200 series and then cases on OPPO Find X8/Pro smartphones. Although MediaTek has been in tight collaboration with Arm, the Dimensity 9400 will have:
- A 3.63GHz Arm Cortex-X925 core optimized for maximum speed and efficiency.
- Mali-G925, Immortalis MC12 GPU, which promises 30% better performance compared to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
- Revolutionary ray tracing technology, first amongst mobile devices to rewrite great graphical performance enhancement for mobile gaming and visual applications.
It would come with expectations of maintain MediaTek’s reputation for powerful, yet energy-efficient chips, thereby supporting a superior mobile gaming experience.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4: Qualcomm’s Breakthrough Called Phoenix Core
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be officially unveiled at the Snapdragon Summit 2024, and by then, it should be powering Xiaomi’s next flagship platform. Xiaomi’s Lu Weibing also has apparently joined the conversation with a teaser for the event. Here are some key details that have been revealed:
- Qualcomm’s all-new “Phoenix” cores, which will be customised completely by Qualcomm, running at a clock speed of 4.32GHz .
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 fully unleashes over 10,000 in a GeekBench 6 multi-core score, which hints at stunning performance enhancements. The processor should also have very high speeds while increasing power efficiency-a factor that has been one of the major obstacles in the development of mobile processors.
For the first time, Qualcomm fully customized its cores, so that will likely result in a notable performance boost compared to previous ones.
Dimensity 9400 vs Snapdragon 8 Generation 4: Which one wins this race?
While exciting new features are introduced by both processors, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 will lead in GPU performance and game capabilities, having enhanced that by 30% and introducing new ray tracing technology, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 would amaze all people with fully customized Phoenix cores and more than 10,000 points from GeekBench 6.
Since both chipsets are expected to power flagship devices by the end of this year, the vivo X200 and OPPO Find X8/Pro for Dimensity 9400 and Xiaomi’s next-gen flagship for Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, users will soon get to try out these advancements. This coming October is surely going to be a blast for every techie, as this would really pit the two processors against each other in a fierce battle to become performance kings in the high-end smartphone category.Redmi K80 series can use Dimensity 9400.
