Some time ago, Apple officially released its latest in-house developed A15 Bionic chip for the iPhone 13 series. The performance of this chip remains the best in the smartphone industry at the moment. Subsequently, Google also released its first self-developed Tensor SoC smartphone chip. While the main focus of this chip is AI, the two 1GHz Cortex-X2,8 super-cores are very powerful. However, the two chips mentioned above are mostly in-house designed and used chips. What really gets everyone's attention is Qualcomm and MediaTek's next-generation flagship products.
Qualcomm first announced a new Snapdragon Technology Summit around December 1st. The industry believes the successor to the Snapdragon 888 will make its official debut. The new product was supposed to be called the Snapdragon 898. However, a few days ago there were reports that Qualcomm has given a new name to its flagship processor. The report claims the Snapdragon 898 will be referred to as the "Snapdragon 8 gen1".
Subsequently, reports surfaced that the Snapdragon 8 gen1 rival, MediaTek Dimensity 2000, would also have a name change. According to reports, this flagship processor will hit the market as the Dimensity 9000.
The exact reason for the renaming of these chips remains unknown. However, it will take some time for users to adjust to the new names. However, these new names remain rumors and there are no official announcements from both companies.
Snapdragon 8 gen1 and Dimensity 9000 in detail
Qualcomm The Snapdragon 8 gen1 is a 4nm Samsung chip with 1 X2 Super Large Core 3,0 GHz + 3 Large Cores 2,5 GHz + 4 Small Cores 1,79 GHz. The video card is an Adreno 730 GPU. The Dimensity 9000 uses a 4nm TSMC process: 1 super-large 3,0 GHz X2 + 3 large 2,85 GHz + 4 small 1,8 GHz. The graphics card is a Mali-G710 MC10 GPU.
The Snapdragon 8 gen1 and Dimensity 9000 chips are also very similar in performance. According to previous reports, both chips use the latest 4nm process technology. In addition, they both use a 1 + 3 + 4 tri-cluster design and support X2 super core.
Although both are 4nm chips, TSMC's 4nm process is generally considered to be ahead of Samsung. Thus, the main frequency of the triple-core A78 in the Dimensity 9000 reaches 2,85GHz, while the main frequency of the triple-core A78 in the Snapdragon 8 gen1 is only 2,5GHz. This suggests that the performance of the Dimensity 9000 will be higher than that of the Snapdragon 8 gen1. However, the gap between the two chips remains to be seen. MediaTek Dimensity 9000 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 are basically the same in core architecture, but they have a slight advantage in performance and power consumption.
