Not long ago, Qualcomm officially released a new generation, a new, named Snapdragon 8 flagship core; and today, MediaTek also launched a new flagship chip that can be called "skipping"- Tianji 9000. Li Yanji, deputy general manager of MediaTek's Wireless Communications Division, said at the press conference: "The Tianji 9000 is a milestone in MediaTek's innovation road, it is specially built for the world's flagship 5G smartphone, and it is a sign that Tianji has entered a new generation." As with the news exposed before, the performance of the Tianji 9000 is very strong, and it will definitely put great pressure on the Snapdragon 8.
Tianji 9000 is the world's first chip based on TSMC's 4nm process, with stronger performance and lower power consumption. The CPU part uses a 1+3+4 "triple-bundle eight-core" architecture, a Cotrex-X2 super core, the highest frequency of 3.05GHz; two Cortex-A710 large cores, the main frequency of 2.85GHz; four Cortex-A510 cores, the main frequency is 1.8GHz. According to the official data released, the Cotrex-X2 super core can improve the performance by 35%, and can improve the energy efficiency by 37%, which is simply fast and power-saving, and the play is cool and long.
In terms of GPU, the Tianji 9000 is equipped with ARM's latest Mali-G710 core, with a performance increase of 35%, a staggering 60% increase in efficacy, and even supports Vulkan ray tracing technology. Officials said that the Tianji 9000 will increase the frame rate of mobile games from the era of 60 frames to 90 frames, or even 120 frames. It is not difficult to see that the game performance of Tianji 9000 will be epoch-making, and in a few months, the first batch of flagship machines equipped with Tianji 9000 will meet with everyone, and then you can test whether the game experience is against the sky.
In terms of CPU and GPU alone, the performance of The Tianji 9000 can already be called the C contender of the flagship core in 2021, and it is no different from the Snapdragon 8. If anyone thinks that MediaTek chip is a low-end representative in the future, then everyone should really doubt his IQ. After several iterations, the Tianji series now finally has the capital to face Snapdragon head-on, and the Tianji 9000 is also the product of MediaTek's concentration of resources and comprehensive outbreak in the ARM v9 era, and it is also an important step to fully impact the high-end market and challenge Qualcomm's dominance.
According to the statistics released by Counterpoint, MediaTek's 4G+5G chip share in China's mobile phone market in 2021 reached 41%, and simple 5G chips also gained 40% market share; and looking at the global market, MediaTek's 4G+5G chips also got 40% of the share, which is a relatively staggering number. Under such a good momentum, the task of Tianji 9000 is to take advantage of the victory to chase, and then the next city, and snipe with Qualcomm Middle Road in the field of high-end flagship chips.
It is worth mentioning that MediaTek also revealed that Tianji 9000 will be launched in the first quarter of 2022 by OPPO's Find X new flagship, and it is not surprising that it is the Find X4 series. This is more speculative, OPPO is bound to play a two-line combat operation, Snapdragon 8 + Tianji 9000 combination punch can come up with what kind of product matrix, it is not easy to say. Of course, it is not excluded that the Find X4 series will have a dual-chip branch, which may be slightly different in price.
At the same time, Vivo, Redmi, and Glory also appeared at MediaTek's press conference, saying that they would take a new step to cooperate with MediaTek, so Tianji 9000 would be arranged. I believe that the flagship battle in 2022 will be very good-looking, this is not only a showdown between Qualcomm and MediaTek two chip manufacturers, but also a fight between various mobile phone brands, what is cost-effective is just around the corner, let us sit and wait for a good play.