MediaTek’s flagship Dimensity 9400 chipset introduced: all the details
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 SoC, the company’s latest flagship smartphone processor, was launched on Wednesday. The company had previously revealed that the mobile platform would be launched in October and shared some minor details, and now it has detailed the specifications and capabilities of the processor. The tech giant claimed that the new system-on-chip (SoC) offers 35 percent faster performance on a single core than its predecessor. The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 SoC competes with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset and the Apple A18 series chipsets.
In one press releasethe chipmaker introduced the new mobile platform. The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset is a fourth-generation flagship processor built with Arm’s v9.2 CPU architecture and dedicated GPU and neural processing unit (NPU) architectures. Notably, it is built on TSMC’s second-generation 3nm manufacturing process.
Continuing the tradition of all great core designs, it features one Cortex-X925 core with a maximum clock speed of 3.62 GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores and four Cortex-A720 cores. The company claims that the CPU architecture offers 35 percent faster single-core performance and 28 percent faster multi-core performance compared to the Dimensity 9300 SoC. It is also said to offer 40 percent more energy efficiency compared to its predecessor.
The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset also integrates the company’s eighth-generation NPU and offers on-device LoRA training, on-device video generation capabilities, and developer support for Agentic artificial intelligence (AI). The company claimed that the SoC could deliver up to 80 percent faster Large Language Model (LLM) performance while maintaining 35 percent energy efficiency than the previous generation.
In terms of GPU, the mobile platform is integrated with the 12-core Arm Immortalis-G925, which is said to offer 40 percent faster ray tracing performance compared to its predecessor. Furthermore, MediaTek claimed that it also offers 41 percent improvement in peak performance and 44 percent power savings compared to the Dimensity 9300. The chipset also supports HyperEngine technology.
In addition, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 has Imagiq 1090 for image processing on the device. It also has some minor improvements, such as HDR video recording throughout the zoom range, improvements in capturing moving objects, and lower power consumption when recording 4K60 fps videos compared to its predecessor.
