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MediaTek has announced its newest flagship chip, the Dimensity 9500. It succeeds the Dimensity 9400 from last year and will compete with Samsung's upcoming Exynos 2600 chip, Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, and Apple's recently announced A19 Pro chip, which is used in the iPhone 17 series.
The new MediaTek chip offers faster AI, CPU, and gaming performance, and improved efficiency.
CPU
The Dimensity 9500 is fabricated on TSMC's newest 3nm (N3P) process. Similar to the previous two generations of flagship Dimensity chips, the new chip uses the ‘All Big Core' design.
It uses Arm's new Lumex CPU architecture, featuring one Arm C1-Ultra CPU core clocked at 3.36GHz, three Arm C1-Premium CPU cores running at 3.3GHz, and four Arm C1-Pro CPU cores clocked at 2.4GHz. The CPU has a total of 10MB of system-level cache (SLC) memory.
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The company claims that its CPU is 32% faster in single-core performance and 17% faster in multi-core performance compared to the Dimensity 9400.
Its prime CPU core is said to be 55% more efficient during peak performance. Overall, the CPU is claimed to be 30% more efficient while multitasking.
GPU
The chip features a 12-core Arm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12 GPU that promises 33% faster performance and 42% improved power efficiency in gaming. Moreover, it now has twice the number of dedicated ray tracing units, offering 112% faster ray tracing performance in games that support the feature.
Combined with its frame interpolation feature, this chip's GPU promises to offer up to 120fps gaming with ray tracing. That is gaming console-level performance.
The GPU can decode 8K 60fps 10-bit HDR videos and encode 8K 30fps 10-bit HDR videos. It can also drive WQHD+ resolution displays at up to 180Hz variable refresh rate. MediaTek claims that it supports triple-port MIPI for enhanced optimisation for tri-folding devices.
RAM and storage
The Dimensity 9500 is compatible with LPDDR5X RAM clocked at 10,667 MHz and UFS 4.1 storage.
Connectivity
It has built-in Wi-Fi 7 with Triple Band Triple Concurrency (TBTC) design for up to 7.3 Gbps theoretical peak data transfer rates. The chip also features Bluetooth 6.0 connectivity with a dual-engine design for up to 12Mbps data transfer rates.
It supports triple-band GPS (L1CA+L5+L1C), quad-band BeiDou (B1I+B1C+B2a+B2b), GLONASS (L1OF), triple-band Galileo (E1+E5a+E5b), dual-band QZSS (L1CA+L5), and dual-band NavIC (L5+L1). MediaTek claims it uses AI-assisted GNSS for 20% more accuracy.
MediaTek's built-in 5G modem inside this new chip supports sub-6GHz 5G networks in SA and NSA modes and with carrier aggregation (5CC-CA). It uses AI for up to 10% improved efficiency on 5G networks and 50% lower latency.
The company claims that its new chip supports up to 7.4Gbps peak download speeds on sub-6GHz networks. It also supports dual-SIM, dual-active, dual-data connections.
Camera and ISP
The chip's built-in Imagiq 1190 ISP supports up to 320MP camera sensors and up to 8K 60fps video recording with HDR. It also supports video recording at up to 4K resolution at 120fps with electronic image stabilisation (EIS) and HDR. It also supports 4K portrait mode videos in 60fps and HDR.
AI performance
The integrated NPU 990 supports Agentic AI and Generative AI. It uses groundbreaking compute-in-memory architecture for improved power efficiency. It offers double the AI performance compared to last year and doubles the integer and floating-point computing capabilities.
The NPU uses the BitNet 1.58-bit large model processing for up to 33% lower power consumption during AI processing. It offers 4K resolution image generation and 128K token-long processing.
You can expect it to be 100% faster in 3 billion parameter LLM output and consume 56% lower energy at peak performance.
This chip will be used in OPPO Find X9 Pro and Vivo's X300 series this month. Other brands could also use this chipset over the period of the next one year.
In comparison, the Galaxy S26 Pro and the Galaxy S26 Edge could use the Exynos 2600, a 2nm chip fabricated by Samsung Foundry, in some countries. In other countries, the Galaxy S26 series is expected to use Qualcomm's next-generation flagship smartphone chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy, which is a 3nm chip made by TSMC.
Late next year or in early 2027, Samsung could use a higher clocked version of this chip in its next-generation flagship tablets (Galaxy Tab S12 series).
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The new MediaTek chip offers faster AI, CPU, and gaming performance, and improved efficiency.
Dimensity 9500 is a 3nm chip with massive AI performance improvements
CPU
The Dimensity 9500 is fabricated on TSMC's newest 3nm (N3P) process. Similar to the previous two generations of flagship Dimensity chips, the new chip uses the ‘All Big Core' design.
It uses Arm's new Lumex CPU architecture, featuring one Arm C1-Ultra CPU core clocked at 3.36GHz, three Arm C1-Premium CPU cores running at 3.3GHz, and four Arm C1-Pro CPU cores clocked at 2.4GHz. The CPU has a total of 10MB of system-level cache (SLC) memory.
https://www.imeisource.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Arm-Lumex-CPU-GPU-NPU-Architecture.jpg
The company claims that its CPU is 32% faster in single-core performance and 17% faster in multi-core performance compared to the Dimensity 9400.
Its prime CPU core is said to be 55% more efficient during peak performance. Overall, the CPU is claimed to be 30% more efficient while multitasking.
GPU
The chip features a 12-core Arm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12 GPU that promises 33% faster performance and 42% improved power efficiency in gaming. Moreover, it now has twice the number of dedicated ray tracing units, offering 112% faster ray tracing performance in games that support the feature.
Combined with its frame interpolation feature, this chip's GPU promises to offer up to 120fps gaming with ray tracing. That is gaming console-level performance.
The GPU can decode 8K 60fps 10-bit HDR videos and encode 8K 30fps 10-bit HDR videos. It can also drive WQHD+ resolution displays at up to 180Hz variable refresh rate. MediaTek claims that it supports triple-port MIPI for enhanced optimisation for tri-folding devices.
RAM and storage
The Dimensity 9500 is compatible with LPDDR5X RAM clocked at 10,667 MHz and UFS 4.1 storage.
Connectivity
It has built-in Wi-Fi 7 with Triple Band Triple Concurrency (TBTC) design for up to 7.3 Gbps theoretical peak data transfer rates. The chip also features Bluetooth 6.0 connectivity with a dual-engine design for up to 12Mbps data transfer rates.
It supports triple-band GPS (L1CA+L5+L1C), quad-band BeiDou (B1I+B1C+B2a+B2b), GLONASS (L1OF), triple-band Galileo (E1+E5a+E5b), dual-band QZSS (L1CA+L5), and dual-band NavIC (L5+L1). MediaTek claims it uses AI-assisted GNSS for 20% more accuracy.
MediaTek's built-in 5G modem inside this new chip supports sub-6GHz 5G networks in SA and NSA modes and with carrier aggregation (5CC-CA). It uses AI for up to 10% improved efficiency on 5G networks and 50% lower latency.
The company claims that its new chip supports up to 7.4Gbps peak download speeds on sub-6GHz networks. It also supports dual-SIM, dual-active, dual-data connections.
Camera and ISP
The chip's built-in Imagiq 1190 ISP supports up to 320MP camera sensors and up to 8K 60fps video recording with HDR. It also supports video recording at up to 4K resolution at 120fps with electronic image stabilisation (EIS) and HDR. It also supports 4K portrait mode videos in 60fps and HDR.
AI performance
The integrated NPU 990 supports Agentic AI and Generative AI. It uses groundbreaking compute-in-memory architecture for improved power efficiency. It offers double the AI performance compared to last year and doubles the integer and floating-point computing capabilities.
The NPU uses the BitNet 1.58-bit large model processing for up to 33% lower power consumption during AI processing. It offers 4K resolution image generation and 128K token-long processing.
You can expect it to be 100% faster in 3 billion parameter LLM output and consume 56% lower energy at peak performance.
Which phones will use the Dimensity 9500 chip?
This chip will be used in OPPO Find X9 Pro and Vivo's X300 series this month. Other brands could also use this chipset over the period of the next one year.
In comparison, the Galaxy S26 Pro and the Galaxy S26 Edge could use the Exynos 2600, a 2nm chip fabricated by Samsung Foundry, in some countries. In other countries, the Galaxy S26 series is expected to use Qualcomm's next-generation flagship smartphone chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy, which is a 3nm chip made by TSMC.
Late next year or in early 2027, Samsung could use a higher clocked version of this chip in its next-generation flagship tablets (Galaxy Tab S12 series).
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