Key Takeaways
- MediaTek has unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first 2nm chip.
- The new chipset offers significant improvements in CPU and GPU performance.
- It supports advanced AI processing and is expected to be used in upcoming smartphones.
MediaTek has officially launched the Dimensity 9600 Pro, marking its first 2nm chip and the first from the company to use Arm’s latest CPU and GPU designs.
The new flagship platform focuses on enhancing CPU performance, graphics, AI processing, memory, and storage, while emphasizing power efficiency.
The Dimensity 9600 Pro features an eight-core CPU with two Arm C2-Ultra cores and six C2-Pro cores, each with varying levels of L2 cache.
Compared to the Dimensity 9500, the new CPU delivers up to 17% higher single-core performance and 37% better single-core efficiency, while multi-core performance is up by 15% and efficiency improves by 61%.
The chip includes 16MB of L3 cache and 10MB of system-level cache, supporting both LPDDR5X and LPDDR6 memory, with LPDDR6 offering up to 33% higher performance.
Storage support has been upgraded to UFS 5.0, and the chipset includes Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.2, and a Release 17 5G modem with sub-6GHz 4×4 MIMO.
In terms of cameras and video, the Dimensity 9600 Pro supports up to 200MP camera sensors and 8K video recording at 60fps, with enhanced video decoding support.
The new chipset also includes a major AI upgrade with MediaTek’s new NPU 1090, which doubles INT4 AI performance and claims 55% better token generation per watt and 51% faster prompt pre-fill performance.
A dedicated hardware compression engine manages KV cache, reducing memory demands for on-device generative AI workloads.
The first smartphone powered by the Dimensity 9600 Pro has already been announced, with more devices expected to follow in the coming quarter.
