MediaTek is still frequently associated with budget Android phones, but it’s increasingly making its way in the pioneer And a newer system-on-a-chip may help in this regard. company It introduced the Dimensity 9200 chip which, among other claims, is billed as the first WiFi 7 ready SoC. You’ll need a phone with a compatible network chipset and WiFi router to match, but this theoretically delivers faster speeds up to 6.5 Gbps on the device with improved Reliability and Delay Reduction.
Dimensity 9200 is also said to be the first mobile chip to use the . band ARMv9 Generation 2 architecture, uses new cores to match. The “large” Cortex-X3 core handles the most demanding tasks with the help of three Cortex-A715 performance cores. Four low-power Cortex-A510 cores help extend battery life. The combo provides a modest 10 to 12 percent boost over the Dimensity 9000 in synthetic tests, but is said to reduce power consumption by up to 25 percent.
The biggest acceleration comes with the graphics. Dimensity 9200 is one of the first chips to use the new ARM Immortal- G715 The GPU, which provides hardware ray tracing, has three times the throughput of the triangle and greater efficiency. MediaTek says it’s up to 32 percent faster than the Dimensity 9000’s GPU while using 41 percent less power.
Other improvements are more subtle, but still useful. Unlike many MediaTek chips, the 9200 supports both sub-6GHz and millimeter wave 5G to provide fast cellular data in more parts of the world. The Imagiq 890 image signal processor is the first to support RGBW camera sensors, and promises more brightness and detail in images than regular RGB. He can counteract motion blur as well. You can also expect support for fast UFS 4.0 storage, the latest LPDDR5X (8.5 Gbps) memory, and 24-bit/192kHz audio.
The first phones to use the Dimensity 9200 should be available by the end of 2022. That won’t necessarily make Qualcomm sweat, especially with a possible Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on the horizon. However, this may put MediaTek in more high-end phones – and that’s good for both selection and competition.
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