MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Geekbench score estimate hints at a colossal increase in single-core performance

Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station (hereby referred to as DCS for brevity) recently talked about how the Apple A19 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 would perform compared to their last-gen counterparts. With the Exynos 2600's future uncertain, the only remaining contender in the high-end smartphone SoC marketplace is MediaTek's Dimensity 9500. And if DCS's performance estimate is accurate, it might get slightly out-edged by its competitors.

The Dimensity 9500 supposedly scores 3,900 points in Geekbench's single-core test and 11,000 in multicore. The former is slightly lower than that of its Qualcomm and Apple competitors, but the latter figure suggests it stay competitive. It will come with 16 MB L3 cache and 10 MB SLC (System Level Cache) for the GPU and other components. For memory, it will employ LPDDR5X-10677 MT/s modules. Four-lane UFS 4.1 storage is also supported.

According to our benchmark database, the Dimensity 9400, on average, scores 2,605 and 8,078 points in Geekbench 6.4. If DCS's estimates are accurate, the Dimensity 9500 will be 49% faster in single core performance and 36% faster in multicore. These numbers are phenomenally high and borderline unattainable with just a minor node upgrade (TSMC N3E to N3P). This implies Arm has a major redesign coming with its Cortex-X925 (now known as Lumex) successor. Ideally, the SoC should surface on a benchmarking platform at least once before its late-September debut.