MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Geekbench listing reveals never-before-seen GPU

We have our first glimpse at MediaTek's next-gen flagship smartphone SoC, the Dimensity 9500. An early sample has hit Geekbench, and while it doesn't show the chip's true potential, it gives us a taste of things to come, and even teases a new GPU.

The Dimensity 9500 (k6993v1_64) scores 15,717 points on Geekbench's OpenCL benchmark. While this is remarkably lower than the Dimensity 9400 (~20,937), the GPU's clock speed is reported to be 1 MHz, which clearly indicates it is not performing as per spec.

Furthermore, the Geekbench listing also confirms the existence of a Mali-G1-Ultra MC12 GPU from Arm, and not an Immortalis-branded model. This could be a part of Arm's broader rebrand, which includes renaming Cortex CPU cores to Lumex.

Other Dimensity 9500 specs include a familiar 1+3+4 CPU layout. The clock speed shown is unlikely to be accurate because they're lower than that of the Dimensity 9400. An earlier leak predicted it would trade blows with the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 in multi-core performance but not in single-core.