MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ flagship mobile chipset revealed

MediaTek has announced its flagship Dimensity 9000+ mobile chipset. It will rival Qualcomm’s recently announced Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 chipset.

Over the Dimensity 9000, the plus version gets a 5 percent CPU boost and a 10 percent GPU boost. There are also improvements to image signal processing and the 5G modem.

The speed of the Dimensity 9000+'s high-performance cores has been increased from 3.05GHz to 3.2GHz.

It retains the same 1+3+4 configuration, but with three Cortex-A710 cores and four high-efficiency Cortex-A510 cores. The Mali-G710 MC10 GPU has been boosted as well.

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The MediaTek Imagiq 790 can capture 18-bit HDR footage from three cameras at the same time. It also supports still photographs up to 320MP and has a processing speed of 9 gigapixels per second. 4K HDR video recording is also supported.

In addition, MediaTek's MiraVision 790 supports WDHD+ displays with frame rates of 144Hz or 180Hz at FHD and Wi-Fi display support up to 4K60 for HDR content. Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 are also supported by the 9000+.

MediaTek claims that the Dimensity 9000+ might debut in smartphones as early as this year's third quarter.