Late last year, MediaTek graced us with its new top-of-the-line chip, the Dimensity 9300, which was the flagship SoC choice for many manufacturers. Now, the company has come up with a mid-cycle refresh for the 9300 which brings even more power to the table, in the form of the Dimensity 9300+.
Built on a 4nm process, the Dimensity 9300 brought an “All-Big-Core” design to the table for extra performance, and the Plus model is retaining and refining that. There are four Cortex-X4 cores and four Cortex-A720 cores in this chip. One of the Cortex-X4 cores is the big one and has a clock speed of 3.4GHz, which is an improvement from its predecessor’s 3.25GHz. The remainder of the Cortex-X4 cores stay at 2.85GHz and the Cortex-A720 also stay at 2.0 GHz.
The Dimensity 9300+ also brings a major improvement to the APU in the SoC, which equips it a lot better for the AI wave washing over the industry. It now has support for MediaTek’s NeuroPilot Speculative Decode Acceleration — I don’t know what that means, but MediaTek says it brings a 10% improvement in AI tasks. It also comes with better native support for AI models like Meta’s Llama 2 and Llama 3, Google’s Gemini Nano, Baichuan AI, Baidu’s ERNIE 3.5, and Alibaba Cloud Qwen LLM.
The GPU in the chip stays the same as last year, with the Arm Immortalis-G720. It’s not a bad chip by any measure though, with twelve cores, ray-tracing support, and support for fast refresh rate gaming.
The MediaTek Dimensity 9300+ is yet to find its way into any phones that you can buy right now, which is expected as the chip just launched. However, it is expected to be powering the Vivo X100s and benchmarks of the upcoming device have already shown us that the 9300+ looks set to be the most powerful smartphone SoC that any company can get right now, especially as it seems Qualcomm has no plans for a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 3.
In AnTuTu, the Dimensity 9300+ pushed out an insane 2,305,607 points, which surely shoots the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 out of the water with its 2,138,199 score. It’s an 8% increase, which isn’t massive, but it certainly gets rid of the comfortable lead that Qualcomm has had for a long time.
