MediaTek has introduced a contender to the sub-flagship space, the MediaTek Dimensity 8400, which will go against the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3.
The MediaTek Dimensity 8400 has a feature that enthusiasts will find very interesting: all eight cores are Cortex-A75 performance cores, no efficiency cores. Albeit, all eight of them don’t seem to be the same in clock speed, as MediaTek only mentions the chip to be “up to 3.5GHz”.
Compared to its predecessor, the Dimensity 8300, MediaTek says that we’ll be seeing a whopping 41% improvement in multi-core performance, up to 100% more L2 cache, 50% additional L3 cache, 25% more SLC cache, all while having 44% less peak power draw.
There’s a beefy ARM Mali-G720 MC7 GPU that’s 42% more power efficient while boasting 24% peak performance. It then has support for up to WQHD+ resolution screens with up to 144Hz refresh rate.
MediaTek has included their NPU 880 which offers 20% faster integer/floating-point operations, 18% improved efficiency, and 21% better Stable Diffusion 1.5.
For photography, the chip has the Imagiq 1080 ISP that supports up to 320-megapixel sensors, has in-sensor zoom with 100% PDAF, HDR video recording, and is also 12% more power efficient when shooting 4K HDR videos.
As a cherry on top, the MediaTek Dimensity 8400 works with LPDDR5X RAM, UFS 4.0 storage, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.4, and has a 5G-A modem with up to 5.17Gbps download speeds.
We shall see sub-flagship phones with this latest MediaTek chip this year, so stay tuned for that.