MediaTek presents the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first 2nm chip with CPU and GPU of the new generation of Arm

Qualcomm has yet to launch its range of processors for mobile devices at the end of this month of September, but it seems that MediaTek has been ahead of you. The company has presented its most powerful solution, its first chip manufactured by 2 nanometers with new designs Arm CPU and GPUhe Dimensity 9600 Pro. This generation offers notable improvements in performance, thanks to this advanced node design and manufacturing.

MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro debuts 2-nanometer Arm CPU

The new MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro now has an updated core distribution, made up of 2 C2-Ultra, and 6 C2-Pro divided into two groups of 3, presumably with different clock speeds, although these are not yet known. This configuration allows for greater performance in single-core tasks, where MediaTek ensures up to 17% more with 37% more energy efficiency. Regarding multicore tasks, performance has increased by 15%although energy efficiency stands out with an improvement in 61%.

The GPU is another of the notable novelties in this new Soc for high-end mobile devices, where a Mali-G2 Ultra NX. This iGPU offers gaming support with up to 185FPS thanks to its performance of a top 27%. It also has dedicated hardware for ray tracingwhere with this new generation it has also earned a 34% in energy efficiency being a 18% faster.

Dimensity 9600 Pro improves AI performance with MediaTek 1090 NPU

Includes a MediaTek 1090 NPUs capable of doubling the performance in INT4 to the previous 990 of the Dimensity 9500. This represents an increase in 55% in token generation per watt and a prefilled one 51% faster too.

Has memory compatibility LPDDR5x and LPDDR6 and with storage UFS 5.0. It also has a 16 MB L3 cache and an additional 10 MB for the SoC.

He Dimensity 9600 Pro offers the possibility of adding a screen with resolution up to WQHD+ and a refresh rate of 180 Hzalthough this feature was already available on the Dimensity 9500.

200 MP camera and 8K video recording at 60 FPS

Regarding the photography section, the Dimensity 9600 Pro You have the option to directly admit the NPU for photo and video processing. It has the option of sensors 200MP and also video recording 8K with 60 FPS. It has a video decoding engine compatible with VVC or H.266.

MediaTek has only shown the specifications of this Pro modeland it is unknown if a base version will also be released without this tag, which presumably may lower these features. We leave you with the complete technical specifications.

CPU

Processor:
- 2 × Arm C2-Ultra, 2 MB L2 cache
- 3 × Arm C2-Pro, 1 MB L2 cache
- 3 × Arm C2-Pro, 512KB L2 cache
- 16 MB L3 cache
- 10MB SLC

Cores: Octa-core (8 cores)

Memory and storage

Memory type: LPDDR6 10667 / LPDDR5X 10667

Storage type: UFS 5.0

Mobile connectivity

Cellular technologies: 3GPP-R17, Sub-6 GHz (FR1), 2G-5G multimode, 5G-CA, 4G-CA, 5G FDD/TDD, 4G FDD/TDD, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, EDGE and GSM

Specific functions: 5G/4G Triple SIM Triple Active (TSTA), dual data connection, SA and NSA modes, SA Option 2, NSA Option 3/3a/3x, NR FR1 TDD+FDD, DSS, 256QAM, VoNR and EPS fallback

Download Features (DL): Sub-6 GHz DL 5CC 350 MHz, R17 enhancements, 4×4 MIMO on low-band DL

Upload Functions (UL): Sub-6 GHz UL 2CC 200 MHz, R17 enhancements, 2×2 MIMO/PC2 on UL FDD

Energy saving: MediaTek 5G UltraSave 2.0, energy saving improvements R17

GNSS

GPS: L1CA + L5 + L1C

Beidou: B1I + B1C + B2a + B2b

GLONASS: L1OF

Galileo: E1 + E5a + E5b

QZSS: L1CA + L1CB + L1C + L5

NavIC: L5 + L1

Wi-Fi

Standard: Wi-Fi 7 (a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be)

AI features for networks

Concurrence: Triple Band Triple Concurrency (TBTC)

Maximum speed: up to 7.3 Gbps

Bluetooth

Version: Bluetooth 6.2 with dual Bluetooth engine

Maximum speed: up to 12Mbps

Cameras

Maximum supported camera sensor: 200MP

Video Capture Features:
- 8K at 60 FPS
- 4K at 60 FPS with 96 dB HDR video
- 4K at 60 FPS HDR with content-adapted semantic processing
- 4K at 120 FPS with EIS
- 4K at 240 FPS for slow motion