MediaTek is all set to launch a new flagship smartphone chipset next week. The Dimensity 9200+ will debut on May 10 as an overclocked version of last year’s Dimensity 9200, filling in the gap until the company comes up with its next-gen solution Dimensity 9300 later this year. Ahead of its unveiling, an alleged Geekbench score sheet of the new chipset has surfaced online revealing that it will be the most powerful processor for Android. It comfortably outperformed the current leader, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 launched in November last year.
The Dimensity 9200+ scored 2,121 points in the single-core test and 5,655 points in the multi-core test on Geekbench 6. As GSMArena puts it, these scores are “considerably more” than what the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has achieved so far. The latter’s highest single-core and multi-core score’s on Geekbench are 1,992 and 5,641, respectively. It achieved those scores with ASUS’ upcoming gaming smartphone ROG Phone 7 Ultimate. The device had the performance X Mode turned on, which pushes the CPU to its limit to ensure smooth gaming performance.
The new MediaTek chipset, on the other hand, managed to beat the latest Qualcomm processor in standard mode with no performance boost at the CPU level. The Geekbench 6 score sheet of the Dimensity 9200+ is from a Vivo smartphone. It is probably the Vivo X90s or the Vivo X90s Pro. There are rumors of the Chinese firm working on a couple of new models in the X90 series with the upcoming MediaTek processor. ASUS may also launch a Dimensity 9200+ variant of the ROG Phone 7 Ultimate.
Dimensity 9200+ rumored specs
As said earlier, the Dimensity 9200+ will be a minor upgrade over last year’s Dimensity 9200. However, unlike in the past, MediaTek appears to be raising the CPU frequency across the board instead of just making the prime CPU core faster. The Cortex-X3 prime core reportedly operates at 3.35GHz on the new chipset, up from 3.05GHz. Likewise, the three Cortex-A715 performance cores get a frequency boost from 2.85GHz to 3.0GHz. The clock speed of the four Cortex-A510 efficiency cores is not known (1.8GHz on the Dimensity 9200).
Based on this Geekbench run, the Dimensity 9200+ is all set to reign the Android processor space for at least a few months as there’s no competition in the market. Rumors are that Qualcomm won’t launch a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 this year. It will go straight to the Gen 3 solution, which may arrive in late October 2023 with a clock speed of up to 3.7GHz. MediaTek will also launch the Dimensity 9300 around the same time. It remains to be seen which chip behemoth comes out on top.
2023-05-02 15:10:54