MediaTek is expected to announce a less powerful version of the Dimensity 9400 which is expected to arrive as the Dimensity 8400. Today, a leak revealed details of its CPU and GPU, which hint at a significant performance boost.
MediaTek has already revealed its flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9400, and it has already appeared in a handful of smartphones such as the Oppo Find X8 and Find X8 Pro. As is tradition, there will be a less powerful variant of the processor which is expected to be called Dimensity 8400. MediaTek has not revealed it yet, but there have been numerous reports about it, with the latest revealing details on the CPU and GPU.
The Dimensity 8400 will be an octa-core processor with a 1+3+4 architecture according to a post on Weibo by Digital Chat Station. The post also reveals that the 4nm chipset, which will be produced by TSMC, will feature Cortex-A725 cores from Arm. However, in a response to a question asked in the post’s comments, he clarified that the Dimensity 8400 will actually have four Cortex-A725 cores and four Cortex-A720 cores.
One of the Cortex-A725 cores will be overclocked to over 3 GHz, while the other three Cortex-A725 cores will have a lower clock speed, but also in the 3 GHz range. The high-efficiency Cortex-A720 cores, which replace the Cortex-A510 in the Dimensity 8300 in the Poco X6 Pro (currently available on Amazon.de for €295), will have a frequency of 2.x GHz.
Coming to the GPU, the Dimensity 8400 is said to use the same GPU IP as the Dimensity 9400, namely the Arm Immortalis-G925 GPU. However, it is unclear if it will have the same number of cores. The source mentions that the chipset performance is still being optimized.
Some are guessing which manufacturer will be the first to announce a phone powered by the Dimensity 8400. Some suggest it could be one of the Redmi K80s while others say it could be one of the models of the upcoming Oppo Reno 13 series. More information is expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
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