Back in April, we heard that the upcoming MediaTek Dimensity 9500 will have an Immortalis-Drage GPU with reduced power consumption and improved ray tracing. As we get closer to the launch, leakster Ice Universe has some details to share.
The GPU will reportedly improve energy efficiency by “over 40% compared to the previous generation”. In addition to the GPU – which may be marketed as a Mali-G1-Ultra MC12 and may be clocked at 1.0GHz – there will be an all-big core CPU with 1x Cortex-X930 (Travis) core at 3.23GHz, 3x Alto cores at 3.03GHz and 4x Gelas cores at 2.23GHz.
Peak performance of the GPU has also gone up, especially in ray tracing tasks – there the increase is a whopping 40%. According to Ice, this will allow the GPU to run ray tracing games at 100fps or above.
The MediaTek flagship chip is expected to be unveiled before the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, meaning before late September. After that, we will see a surge in new flagship phone announcements.
By the way, PC game emulation on ARM Mali GPUs recently got a major improvement, which will be interesting to see running on the more powerful Dimensity 9500. This GPU will be used in other chipsets, of course, but it will be interesting to see which ones – Samsung may or may not ditch AMD, while Google may be switching to an Imagination GPU for the Tensor G5.
