MediaTek’s new Dimensity 9500 marks the company’s third-generation “all big-core” SoC. This build takes big leap with gaming performance and AI processing.
Internally, the Dimensity 9500 is made up of 8 cores built on Arm’s C1-Ultra, C1-Premium, and C1-Pro processors built on a 3nm process. The “big-core” design was pioneered by the Dimensity 9300, though MediaTek seems to be much more interested in the new approach in comparison to other chipmakers. Qualcomm still utilizes a combination of performance and smaller efficiency cores.
The new flagship processor offers several performance boosts over the previous generation. MediaTek’s stats say the SoC is 55% more efficient at peak performance and 16% better in multi-core performance. The chip also uses UFS 4.1 storage for faster AI with four storage lanes.
A 9-th 9th-generation NPU 990 takes on the load of AI processing. The NPU’s power has doubled with better power efficiency using always-on “small models.” The Dimensity 9500 will, according to MediaTek, allow Android devices to generate 4K images using on-board processing. The NPU also allows for low-bit support, making large quantities of small processes more efficient, especially for Gemini throughout Android.
Organically captured images get an upgrade, too. Devices with the Dimensity 9500 will be able to support up to 200MP processors and NPU-assisted focusing.
The more exciting bump in performance comes in the form of more frames and better hardware-accelerated ray-tracing. The Dimensity 9500 uses an Arm G1-Ultra GPU that offers higher peak performance and 119% faster raytracing benchmarks. Games with ray-tracing should be reproduced at 120fps with the new SoC, though time will tell if real-life performance agrees.
MediaTek says that flagship devices from Vivo and Oppo are expected in Q4 2025, which is any time from now until the end of the year.
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