MediaTek Dimensity 9300 powered Vivo X100 blazes past Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Exynos 2400 and Apple A17 Pro in Geekbench

Unlike the past few release cycles, MediaTek announced the Dimensity 9300 after Qualcomm's flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Initial benchmarks showed both chips performing on par with each other. However, some new Geekbench 6.2 scores of the Dimensity 9300-powered Vivo X100 have shown up online, and some of them are remarkably better than earlier.

Single-core test scores average around 2,250 points across the board. On the other hand, the multi-core figure varies between 7,000 and 7,900. The latter is higher than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3's score of 7,501 in our benchmark database. It even outdoes the Apple A17 Pro (7,244), although that is to be expected from an eight-core SoC vs a six-core. MediaTek's decision to use all "large" cores on the Dimensity 9300 ensures it outperforms the 10-core Exynos 2400 (2,067 single-core and 6,520 multi-core).

Moving over to the GPU, the Arm Immortalis G720 GPU scores 13,686 points in Geekbench's OpenCL benchmark, putting it behind the Exynos 2400's Xclipse 920 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3's Adreno 750. Then again, Geekbench only gives a rough idea about GPU performance as it doesn't stress the hardware for long enough. Nonetheless, it is rapidly catching up with the competition, and MediaTek APs could eventually surpass anything Qualcomm, Samsung and Apple throw at it thanks to Nvidia GPUs.

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