The mobile phone market competition in 2022 is becoming increasingly fierce, and mobile phone chip accelerates inversion. In the high-end flagship market, the Dimensity 9000 series successfully broke the deadlock and continued to make efforts. In the middle of this year, MediaTek launched Dimensity 9000+, taking over the first generation of Xinhuang Dimensity 9000, further consolidating the growth of Dimensity in the high-end market; not long ago, it also released Dimensity 9200, adopting TSMC's second-generation 4nm process, bringing lasting and high-efficiency performance, and achieving comprehensive upgrades in many aspects such as imaging, gaming, display, and communication experience.
In just one year, Dimensity 9000 series chips have been newly released one after another. With its high performance, high energy efficiency and low power consumption, it has been favored by mainstream mobile phone brands such as OPPO, vivo, Xiaomi , Honor and Asus ROG. New phones of the Dimensity 9000 series are continuously on the market. Counterpoint, a well-known data statistics agency, also stated in the report that MediaTek accelerates penetration of the high-end mobile phone market above US$500 through the Dimensity 9000 series chips, providing momentum for MediaTek's long-term and steady growth in its share in the global and Chinese mobile phone chip markets.
The basis of good market performance is the continuous upgrade of the Dimensity 9000 series chips in product strength. Next, let’s take a look at the various advantages of the Dimensity 9000 series chips.
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From Dimensity 9000 to Dimensity 9200, the high performance, high energy efficiency and low power consumption gene-level advantages run through all the time
As MediaTek's ace flagship chip series, the Dimensity 9000 series is a representative of the kind of materials used and advanced technology. Dimensity 9000 integrated CPU Cortex-X2 is super-large core, with a maximum main frequency of up to 3.05GHz, while Dimensity 9000+ is increased to 3.2GHz. Combined with 14MB of super-large cache combination and Arm Mali-G710 flagship ten-core GPU, it can provide ultra-high processing speed and extremely strong gaming performance. The ROG gaming mobile phone 6 Dimensity Supreme Edition equipped with Dimensity 9000+ reached the top of the Antutu flagship mobile phone performance ranking once it was released.
Dimensity 9200 is also not inferior. It is equipped with an octa-core flagship CPU, and the performance cores all support pure 64-bit applications, bringing higher energy efficiency performance. In terms of GPU, the new Immortalis-G715 GPU is adopted, with a performance increase of 32% compared with the previous generation and a power consumption reduction of 41%. It also supports mobile hardware ray tracing and variable rate rendering technology, and has stronger graphics rendering capabilities, bringing mobile game players a more comfortable, more realistic and immersive gaming experience.
In the mobile phone experience, high performance and low power consumption seem to have been contrary to the propositions for a long time. However, the Dimensity series chips have solved this problem with their unique technical achievements. Dimensity 9000 series uses MediaTek's global energy efficiency optimization technology to achieve efficient kernel scheduling strategies, creating three modes: light load, medium load and heavy load, covering different IP modules in all aspects, optimizing the power consumption of the entire scene, allowing users to enjoy smooth operation while avoiding energy consumption anxiety.
In addition to global energy efficiency optimization, MediaTek has integrated its pursuit of high energy efficiency and low power consumption into various application scenarios. In terms of communications, MediaTek's self-developed UltraSave power saving technology is constantly iteratively upgraded. In the newly launched Dimensity 9200, UltraSave power saving technology has been extended from 5G connection to Wi-Fi, which can reduce Wi-Fi power consumption by 70%. In terms of intelligent display, Dimensity 9200 supports adaptive refresh rate technology, which can intelligently analyze screen requirements and dynamically adjust refresh rate, which can reduce power consumption by 35%.
It can be said that the Dimensity 9000 series chip imprints the three words "high energy efficiency" in the product genes, providing users with a smooth and low-power usage experience in all aspects.
independent AI processor, game experience and imaging technology continue to innovate, flagship experience without blind spots
While taking into account performance and energy efficiency, Dimensity 9000 series chips accurately layout the industry trends such as 3A games migration to mobile terminals, computing and photography, continue to invest, and continuously iterate the independent AI processor APU to provide support for the performance in various application scenarios.The built-in APU 690 of Dimensity 9200 is deeply integrated into all aspects of chip operation with strong AI computing power. The implementation of video super-score technology, flagship image processor Imagiq 890 ISP computing photography and other features are indispensable.
Faced with the general trend of 3A games migrating to mobile terminals, the Dimensity 9000 series has also developed rapidly in terms of game experience. From the Dimensity 9000 integrated ray tracing dual engine, we can see MediaTek's emphasis on game visual effects. The latest Dimensity 9200 supports hardware-level mobile ray tracing technology, and works closely with the Tencent "Dark Zone Breakthrough" game production team to create realistic picture quality in terms of game effects such as shadow, reflection, and ambient light occlusion. In addition, Dimensity 9200 also brings a new game adaptive control technology (MAGT). Thanks to this technology, the " Honor of Kings " system can dynamically adjust the game's rendering logic based on the real-time load of the terminal hardware, bringing a better ultimate picture quality of 120 full frames and stable frame experience, making the game battery life longer.
In addition to the refreshing gaming experience, another major trend in flagship chips is computing photography. The Dimensity 9000 series has achieved the deep integration of ISP and APU. Based on the characteristics such as dark light and noise reduction supported by Dimensity 9000, the newly released Dimensity 9200 has launched new upgrades such as AI dual-track capture function and movie mode, as well as intelligent image semantic technology. Among them, the highly-watched intelligent image semantic technology can use AI to perform real-time image semantic segmentation, targeted adjustment of the scenes and objects in each frame of the picture, comprehensively improve the imaging quality, and create a more three-dimensional depth of field effect. In addition, intelligent image semantic technology can automatically distinguish the subject and background, and accurately set shutter parameters for the subject to ensure accurate focus and make the capture clearer.
Overview of the performance of the Dimensity 9000 series this year, its product strength has been steadily improved, and it has actively cooperated with ecological partners to firmly embark on the high-end route, bringing many surprises to the flagship market. Based on its advantages of high performance, high energy efficiency and low power consumption, Dimensity 9000 series has achieved innovative upgrades in gaming, imaging and other aspects with the support of independent AI processors. MediaTek's precise control of cutting-edge market trends and its continuous investment in key technologies are the cornerstone of the steady improvement of the Dimensity 9000 series in the high-end market.
Dimensity 9200 launched by MediaTek at the end of this year is MediaTek's latest masterpiece to continue to stand firm in the flagship market, and it also adds new highlights to the flagship mobile phone market next year. Dimensity 9200 has comprehensive and powerful upgraded in the implementation of user experience, from exclusive innovative flagship packaging design to the second-generation TSMC 4nm process, from UFS4.0 with multi-cycle queue technology to full-blown LPDDR5X memory support, from hardware-level mobile light tracing landing to AI image semantic segmentation, from intelligent frame stabilization technology 2.0 to game adaptive control technology, from 5G new dual-channel recorder-level 24bit/192KHz Bluetooth wireless audio, terminal manufacturers will also have more opportunities to create more differentiated and competitive flagship products. We look forward to the emergence of more models equipped with Dimensity 9200 in the market in the future, opening up a new round of healthy competition in the flagship mobile phone market.