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TL;DR
- MediaTek has introduced the Dimensity 9200 Plus chipset.
- This brings larger CPU and GPU clock speeds over the vanilla Dimensity 9200.
- Expect the primary telephones with this chipset later this month.
The Dimensity 9200 is MediaTek‘s top-end smartphone processor in 2023, taking the fight to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Now, the Taiwanese chipmaker has announced a mid-year refresh dubbed the Dimensity 9200 Plus.
True to previous mid-year upgrades, the Dimensity 9200 Plus is the same chipset but with clock speed upgrades to the CPU and GPU. In the case of the former, the Cortex-X3 big core now hits 3.35GHz (from 3.05GHz), while the Cortex-A715 medium cores now hit 3GHz (previously 2.85GHz). Those Cortex-A510 cores are still pegged at 1.8GHz. Either way, that 3.35GHz clock speed is almost identical to the 3.36GHz peak clock speed in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy processor.
MediaTek didn’t dish out a GPU clock pace on the time of the Dimensity 9200’s launch, nevertheless it says that the Plus chipset’s GPU has acquired a 17% enhance to clock pace. Otherwise, that is nonetheless the identical Mali-G715 Immortalis MC11 GPU as earlier than, full with hardware-based ray tracing.
Dimensity 9200 Plus: What else does it supply?
The remainder of the chipset remains to be the identical as the usual Dimensity 9200. So which means you’re getting an M80-based modem with mmWave 5G help (7.9Gbps downlink), a sixth-generation APU, help for as much as 240Hz refresh fee at FHD+ resolutions, 8K recording capabilities, Bluetooth 5.3, and Wi-Fi 7.
We thought the MediaTek Dimensity 9200 was a fairly highly effective processor in our vivo X90 Pro assessment. The cellphone delivered aggressive single-core CPU efficiency whereas duking it out with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 telephones by way of GPU efficiency. However, the vivo cellphone lagged behind when it got here to multi-core CPU scores and GPU stress testing. We’re unsure if clock pace boosts might be sufficient to deal with these weaknesses, nevertheless it definitely seems like a big improve for peak efficiency.
MediaTek says the primary telephones powered by the Dimensity 9200 Plus will arrive later this month. There’s no phrase on the provision of those units, although. For what it’s value, the vivo X90 Pro is the one Dimensity 9200 cellphone in international markets.