On November sixth, chipmaker MediaTek launched the Dimensity 9300, its flagship cellular SoC that goals to problem the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 introduced by Qualcomm two weeks in the past.
The Dimensity 9300 makes use of TSMC’s Third-generation 4nm+ know-how, is made of twenty-two.7 billion transistors, and encompasses a new “All-Big-Core” CPU structure devoted to efficiency.
MediaTek claims improved efficiency and energy consumption over last-gen Dimensity 9200 and barely higher efficiency than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in some benchmarks.
All-Big-Core CPU with 8 Cores for prolonged peak efficiency
The Dimensity 9300 “all-big core CPU architecture” boasts 4 Cortex-X4 ultra-large cores, with one clocked at 3.25GHz, three at 2.85GHz, and 4 massive cores Cortex-A720 at 2.0 GHz. The new structure guarantees to place MediaTek forward of the competitors with brute efficiency.
By comparability, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, comes with a single ultra-large Cortex-X4 core, 5 massive Cortex-A720 cores, and two smaller Cortex-A520 effectivity cores to stability vitality consumption and efficiency.
MediaTek guarantees that the brand new structure nonetheless delivers good energy effectivity and won’t face thermal administration points.
“MediaTek made innovative changes with a Big Core CPU architecture, […] that could meet the low power requirements by simply turning on the big cores to compute faster and then going in a low power sleep state much more quickly, […] and at the same time extend the peak performance,” stated Finbarr Moynihan, GM and VP, Corporate Marketing, MediaTek.
MediaTek has prolonged the reminiscence on-chip from a complete of 14 MB on the Dimensity 9200 to 18 MB (8 MB L3 cache and 10 MB system cache) on the Dimensity 9300. The exterior reminiscence interface has been upgraded to assist LPDDR5T, the quickest RAM presently obtainable for cellular units, with a pace of as much as 9.6 Gbps.
The Dimensity 9300 delivers 15% extra efficiency than the Dimensity 9200 on the similar energy stage, 33% decrease energy consumption on the similar efficiency, and 40% greater peak efficiency, in response to MediaTek.
Immortalis-G720, 12-Core GPU With 46% Better Ray Tracing
Last yr, the Dimensity 9200 built-in the 11-core Immortalis GPU G-715, the primary flagship ARM GPU with hardware-based ray tracing (RT). Thanks to an extra core, mixed with extra on-chip system RAM and L3 cache with a quicker LPDDR5T exterior reminiscence interface, the brand new Immortals-G720 delivers a 46% enhance in ray tracing efficiency. Such a acquire in RT efficiency allows world illumination strategies for extra reasonable 3D gaming.
The firm claims a 46% enhance in GPU efficiency over the earlier technology on the similar energy ranges, a 40% acquire in energy effectivity, and considerably greater body charges than its Qualcomm rival on a few of GFX Bench’s gaming benchmarks.
APU 790, seventh Gen AI Processing Unit Designed for Generative AI
The new APU 790 has been re-engineered to assist on-device generative AI purposes. MediaTek has designed a brand new A16W4 (INT4) Tensor processing unit and a singular reminiscence compression know-how that helps to compute Large Language Models (LLMs) used for generative AI.
Thanks to this new structure, Mediatek claims that the APU 790 can run LLMs with 7 billion parameters at 20 tokens per second or with 13 billion parameters at a slower charge (with 16 GB RAM), and as much as 33 billion with prolonged RAM.
With its new APU, MediaTek claims an 8x enhance in efficiency over its predecessor for generative AI purposes, and the brand new structure is touted to course of picture technology utilizing text-to-image Stable Diffusion fashions in lower than one second.
And like its Qualcomm nemesis, the Dimensity 9300 helps normal massive language fashions (LLMs) reminiscent of Meta’s Lama2 and Baidu’s ERNIE-3-4.
On the extra conventional AI aspect, the APU 790 delivers 2x the efficiency on integer and arithmetic floating level efficiency for purposes reminiscent of computational images and video show administration, with a forty five% discount in energy consumption in comparison with final yr’s SoC.
Imagiq 990 ISP, Camera Experience Enhancements
The Imagiq 990 ISP gives always-on HDR functionality for 4K seize at 60 fps, with real-time bokeh monitoring. Thanks to the 16 object layer segmentation assist throughout video recording, the digicam system can determine and observe faces, individuals, physique, timber, grass, mountains, sky, sea, and landscapes after which apply totally different corrections or enhancements to every merchandise.
Other options embody standalone OIS and 3-mic HDR audio noise discount.
The Vivo X100 collection smartphones are anticipated to launch on November 13 in China with the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 processor.
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