MediaTek has lifted the lid on its next generation flagship chipset for smartphones called Dimensity 9400.
The new chipset is expected to be featured in upcoming flagship devices from Oppo and others, offering a significant performance boost. of It’s a chip that delivers the highest performance while being more power efficient than the previous generation.
There’s also a new AI smart with an upgraded NPU, and the chipset also supports some new and interesting form factors.
Intrigued? It should be! Here’s everything you need to know about the Dimensity 9400 chipset, including which phones it might be coming to soon. If you’re interested in how it compares to the competition, check out our Dimensity 9400 vs. Dimensity 9300 and Dimensity 9400 vs. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 comparisons.
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 is the chipmaker’s top-end flagship smartphone chipset for 2025, and it comes with a series of upgrades.
First and foremost, the chipset once again uses the all-big-core design first introduced in last year’s Dimensity 9300 with an emphasis on performance. Specifically, the chipset consists of one Arm Cortex X925 core, three Cortex X4 cores, and four Cortex A720 cores, paired with a 12-core Immortalis G925 GPU and MediaTek’s 8th Gen 890 NPU.
This essentially means that the Dimensity 9400 is a rugged chipset with great performance. MediaTek claims a 35% increase in single-core CPU performance and 28% increase in multi-core performance. More notable, however, is the 41% increase in peak GPU performance and 44% increase in efficiency.
MediaTek also shared early benchmark scores from engineering samples, with Geekbench 6 scores of 3055 and 9600 in single-core and multi-core tests, respectively. If that’s what we expect from a 9400-powered device, it could compete with Apple’s top-of-the-line iPhone 16 Pro Max, which scored 3338 and 8167 points respectively in the same test.
The highlight of this year’s show is undoubtedly the 8th Gen 890 NPU, which delivers a massive 2x improvement in on-device image generation and 70% faster LLM processing prompts, all 35% faster. . Efficient.
The latter is likely due to the NPU’s new performance core and flexible core split, allowing the NPU to run AI processes using high-performance or power-friendly cores as needed.
The upgraded NPU also enables MediaTek to deploy what it calls “Agentic AI.” Although MediaTek was shy in announcing specific examples of what Agentic AI can do, it does offer a framework to manufacturers that provides more useful AI “agents” on devices to solve more complex problems. It is claimed that cloud.
Despite this, MediaTek’s flagship chipset is still 40% more efficient overall than the previous generation, which is expected to lead to improved battery life for Dimensity 9400-powered devices in the near future. Masu.
However, it’s not just a matter of processing power. The chipset also features an improved Imagiq 1090 camera ISP that provides support for features such as full-range HDR zoom, Super Zoom with GenAI, smooth video zoom, and up to 8K@60fps video capture.
It also supports high-resolution WQHD+ screens up to 180Hz and support for tri-fold displays like the Huawei Mate XT, and users can also take advantage of tri-band Wi-Fi 7 support where available.
Which smartphones use Dimensity 9400?
The Dimensity 9400 was only announced in early October 2024, so there are no actual smartphones using this chipset yet.
Along with announcing its 2025 flagship chipset, mobile phone maker Oppo has confirmed that the chipset will power the global release of its next flagship smartphone collection, the Oppo Find X8 series.
It’s unclear whether it will be a specific phone within that series or whether it will be available across the entire collection (previously the search range consisted of regular and Pro/Ultra models), but It may not take long to find out.
Although there is no confirmation from other smartphone manufacturers, we can expect phones and tablets from the likes of Xiaomi, Vivo, and even Samsung to release Dimensity 9400-powered devices in the near future. Most of them use Dimensity 9300 in some way. In 2024 anyway.
