Mediatek’s new SoC goes neck and neck with the Apple A18 Pro, the chip that powers the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max.
After Google’s Tensor G4 and the Apple A18, the fair of new high-end mobile chips continues this fall 2024. Next on the list are Qualcomm with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, but also Mediatek which will present its Dimensity 9400 in October.
The latter should first equip Oppo’s Find X8 range. After having tasted the brand’s timid return in France with its Reno 12 Pro in particular, it would be logical that we could get our hands on the high-end smartphones of the Chinese brand again.
It is also interesting to look at the SoC that will power it, in this case the Dimensity 9400.
No efficiency cores (E-cores)
According to leaked details, it would be built around a Cortex-X5 core clocked at 3.63 GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores clocked at 2.80 GHz and four Cortex-A725 cores clocked at 2.1 GHz.
Note that here there are only Performance-cores (P-cores) and none Efficient-cores (E-cores). The first are faster, more powerful, but also more energy-hungry. Here, the Cortex-A725, the least powerful, will probably be devoted to the lightest daily tasks.
A strategy that Mediatek had already adopted on the Dimensity 9300 and it had worked for it since this chip brought it more than a billion dollars in revenue in 2023.
Caught between Apple and Qualcomm
And this Dimensity 9400 recently appeared on Geekbench on an Oppo PKB110, under which the Find X8 would be hidden.
Against the Apple A18 Pro, it rolls up its sleeves and properly beats it on the multi-core score. But Apple reverses the trend on the single-core result. One all, the ball in the center.
| Single-Core | Multi-Core | |
|---|---|---|
| Google Tensor G4 | 1984 | 6628 |
| Apple A18 Pro | 3409 | 8492 |
| Dimensity 9400 | 2889 | 8833 |
| Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 | 3236 | 10049 |
And we can also push the comparison with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, also appeared in Geekbench. There, on the other hand, the Dimensity 9400 is beaten hands down by Qualcomm’s design divided into two Cortex-X925 cores clocked at 4.26 GHz and six Cortex-A725 cores clocked at 2.8 GHz.
Note that for the Mediatek and Qualcomm chips, the benchmarks were carried out on pre-production models. We are not immune to some adjustments that would increase their scores.
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