Dimensity 9300 tipped to outperform Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 by 10%

We have almost reached the time of the year when Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Samsung launch their latest flagship smartphone processors. Samsung has already shared bits about the Exynos 2400, while Qualcomm will unveil the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 later this month. MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 is expected to debut in November. The new Dimensity chip doesn’t feature efficiency cores, and that reportedly makes it more powerful than the Snapdragon.

The Dimensity 9300 is ten percent more powerful than the new Snapdragon

According to noted Weibo (Chinese social network) tipster Digital Chat Station, the Dimensity 9300 will have an octa-core CPU in a 1+3+4 configuration. It may look like a fairly orthodox setup, but it isn’t. We aren’t talking about one prime CPU core, three mid-cores, and four efficiency cores. Instead, the chip features four prime cores and four mid-cores. There aren’t any efficiency cores here.

It has one Cortex-X4 core clocked at 3.25GHz, three more Cortex-X4 cores at 2.85GHz, and four Cortex-A720 cores at 2.0GHz. MediaTek will reportedly pair the CPU with the Immortalis-G720 GPU, whose operating frequency is not known currently. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, on the other hand, does have efficiency cores. It is an octa-core chipset with a 1+5+2 CPU configuration, i.e. one prime core, five mid-cores, and two efficiency cores.

You get one Cortex-X4 CPU core clocked at 3.19GHz, five Cortex-A720 cores at 2.96GHz, and four Cortex-A520 cores at 2.27GHz. The tipster claims that the Dimensity 9300 with its unusual CPU combination will be about ten percent more powerful than the new Qualcomm processor. However, with no efficiency cores, it will be interesting to see how MediaTek’s new chip performs in terms of power and thermal management.

The same source has confirmed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will debut inside the Xiaomi 14 series, which could launch on October 27 in China. The Dimensity 9300, meanwhile, could ship with the Vivo X100 series in November. As usual, the Exynos 2400 will power Samsung’s Galaxy S24 flagships early next year. The Korean firm will also use the new Qualcomm chip in those phones.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will power the Galaxy S24 Ultra globally

While Samsung is using both Exynos and Snapdragon in the Galaxy S24 series, this dual-chip strategy only applies to the smaller two models. The Galaxy S24 Ultra will ship with the next-gen Qualcomm processor globally. The new Samsung flagships are rumored to arrive earlier than the Galaxy S23. We should soon get to know more details about the phones as well as the upcoming processors.