As previously announced, MediaTek has finally made its advanced chipset, the Dimensity 9300, official. This one competes directly with Qualcomm's mobile platform Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which was introduced recently. Check out the details below.
MediaTek Dimensity 9300 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3| Performance benchmarking comparison
The Dimensity 9300 SoC, which succeeds the Dimensity 9200, is based on the third-generation 4nm process and features an octa-core setup. This includes four Arm Cortex-X4 cores clocked at up to 3.25 GHz and four Cortex-A720 cores clocked at up to 2.0 GHz. It is said to be the first to use "all major cores for extreme performance." In comparison, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has a maximum clock speed of 3.3 GHz.
The presence of the Immortalis-G720 GPU provides up to 46% increased GPU performance and 4% less power consumption. You also get hardware-based ray tracing for "console-level global lighting effects at a smooth 60 fps."
The chipset supports the new APU 790 AI processor with improved generative AI performance and up to 45% reduced power consumption. There is also support for NeuroPilot Fusion, which can enable support for large language models.
