Stiff Dimensity 9400 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 competition on cards as performance of MediaTek flagship leaks

After the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and the Dimensity 9300, the latest flagship SoCs from Qualcomm and MediaTek respectively, all eyes are now squarely set on the future Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and the Dimensity 9400. According to previous reports, both the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and the Dimensity 9400 appear to bring considerable improvements over their predecessors.

Now, per the latest Dimensity 9400 leak from Digital Chat Station (DCS), MediaTek’s flagship chip should give the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 a run for its money when it launches later this year. 

The leaker alleges that the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 is fabbed on the TSMC’s second-generation 3 nm process and features a single Cortex-X5 core alongside 3x Cortex-X4 cores. We can assume that the rest of the 8-core design is completed by four Cortex-A720 cores. So, like the Dimensity 9300, the Dimensity 9400 is an all-big-core design without any efficiency-focused cores.

When it comes to performance, DCS suggests that the “current” Dimensity 9400 test sample scores close to 10,000 points in the Geekbench multi-core test. If true, this is notably lower than the previous report of a Dimenstiy 9400 chip earning a score of 11,739 in Geekbench’s multi-core benchmark. Additionally, with a score close to 10,000, the Dimensity 9400 is in the ballpark of the leaked Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 result of 10,628 and is a whopping 40.6% faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 per our testing.

It is important to mention that the Dimensity 9400 performance leaked by DCS is of a pre-release sample chip. So, the final showing of retail silicon could be notably different. Therefore, take any figures listed here as unconfirmed and likely to undergo revision.

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