The Dimensity 9400 was MediaTek’s first 3nm chipset, and the Taiwanese fabless semiconductor manufacturer has once again stuck to its previous launch strategies of announcing a more powerful version of its flagship silicon. This time, we have the Dimensity 9400+, and it too leverages TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process, also known as 3nm ‘N3E,’ to deliver incredible power efficiency to the point that the chipset does not require any lower power cores to be a part of its configuration. Here are more details on the latest announcement.
Like the previous launches, the Dimensity 9400+ offers a small speed bump, and a slight boost to AI performance, but nothing earth-shattering
Smartphone makers are scheduled to bring their devices powered by the Dimensity 9400+ to the market in the second quarter of the year, with the chipset delivering an iterative performance boost compared to the Dimensity 9400 by sticking with an ‘all performance’ cores configuration that includes one ARM Cortex-X925 running at 3.73GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores sporting a 3.30GHz frequency, and four Cortex-A720 cores operating at speeds of 2.40GHz. The ARM Immortalis GPU makes a return to the Dimensity 9400+ by offering 12 cores, along with ray tracing support.
In total, MediaTek’s latest and greatest chipset features 12MB of L3 cache, along with 10MB of system cache and 10MB of SLC. There is also support for LPDDR5X RAM, UFS 4.0 storage, Wi-Fi 7 tri-band with a maximum bandwidth of 7.3Gbps, Bluetooth 6.0 that tops out at 12Mbps, a WQHD+ panel with a 180Hz refresh rate, and more. The Dimensity 9400+ has integrated MediaTek’s Ultrasave 4.0 technology, which employs power-saving attributes for the battery to last longer, and it has ‘out of the box’ support for DeepSeek’s R1 model.
The maximum camera supported by the Dimensity 9400+ is a single 320MP unit, with maximum video capture capping out at 8K 60FPS. For AI, the chipset relies on MediaTek’s 890 NPU, which allows for on-device generative AI and Agentic AI while also delivering up to a 20 percent performance increase in this area. As mentioned above, the Dimensity 9400+ and Dimensity 9400 have few differences shared between them, and while we will provide timely benchmarks to illustrate those differences, we recommend readers keep their eyes out for the Dimensity 9500, which is slated to arrive in the fourth quarter this year.
News Source: MediaTek
