Dimensity 9500 Could Make Your Next Phone a Gaming Beast

MediaTek’s upcoming flagship processor, the Dimensity 9500, is set to hit the smartphone market later this year. While extensive details about the new chip haven’t been available until now, that appears to be changing. Leaked information suggests the Dimensity 9500 will bring significant tech upgrades, especially in terms of its GPU.

MediaTek Dimensity 9500 features surfaced

Compared to its predecessor, the Dimensity 9500 will deliver over a 40% improvement in GPU efficiency. Ray tracing performance is also expected to see a 40% boost. To be more specific, the chipset will be capable of rendering ray-traced graphics at over 100 frames per second.

These details indicate that we can expect a high-end and, more importantly, smooth gaming experience from the chip. This suggests it as a formidable competitor to the Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite 2.

The MediaTek Dimensity 9500 will be equipped with one Cortex-X930 ultra core, three Cortex-X9 performance cores, and four Cortex-A7 series efficiency cores. It will also sport 16MB of L3 cache and 10MB of system-level cache.

The chip will be manufactured using TSMC’s third-generation 3nm N3P process. Furthermore, it is expected to deliver enhanced AI performance. The GPU is reportedly capable of achieving up to 100 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of computing power for AI-related tasks.

The processor showed up in Geekbench benchmarks in June. Scoring over 3,900 points in the single-core and 11,000 points in the multi-core tests, the chipset will offer over 34.5 percent and 19.6 percent more performance than its predecessor, respectively, at least according to our data.

When will the processor be released?

While there’s no official statement from MediaTek yet, the Dimensity 9500 is expected to be unveiled in September. As you may remember, the Dimensity 9400 was unveiled in October 2024. These claims seem plausible considering its predecessor’s launch date.

The Vivo X300 series will be the first to use the chipset, with the Oppo Find X9 series following shortly thereafter. Finally, the chipset is not expected to experience a significant price increase over its predecessors.