Compared with the Tianji 9000, I am more looking forward to another product of MediaTek - a 5nm sub-flagship positioned second only to the Tianji 9000. Prior to this, industry insiders called it Tianji 7000. This is a product that has not yet been released, so the official name has not yet been determined.
To be honest, if the Tianji 9000 can beat the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, it is indeed a "salted fish turnover", which is worth shouting: MTK, YES. However, if MediaTek can step on the Snapdragon 870 by the way, it is called the bottom of the pot.
According to the latest exposure of the digital small talk station, it turns out that we all guessed wrong, MediaTek's other 5nm flagship is not called Tianji 7000, and its official name has been further determined: Tianji 8000.
Tianji 8000 chip is very powerful, and the surface parameters are not weak at all. First of all, it is the same as the Kirin 9000 series, using the TSMC 5nm process, compared with the Snapdragon 870 TSMC 7nm process, Tianji 8000 directly ahead of the generation.
The CPU architecture uses 4 A78 large cores, 4 A55 small cores, mali-G510 MC6 GPUs. The CPU architecture is the same generation as the Tianji 1200, but the frequency is slightly reduced. The GPU has been upgraded to the latest V9 architecture, which has 100% performance and 22% more energy efficiency than the G57 commonly used in mid-range U.
At the same time, Tianji 8000 has also kept up with the mainstream level of flagship chips, running memory to support LNDDR5 and flash memory to support UFS3.1. From the surface parameters, Tianji 8000 is definitely a better sub-flagship chip than Snapdragon 870.
According to known news, the chip's AnTu rabbit running score is around 75W, just enough to press the Snapdragon 870. Considering that Snapdragon 888 is a regurgitated toothpaste, the high-frequency energy efficiency is not as good as snapdragon 870, and the probability will also lose to Tianji 8000.
Only when the mid-range and high-end markets have all fallen, chip manufacturers will seriously make products - which is why I expect the Tianji 8000. Finally, from mediatek's name change, we can also see some interesting details.
It is not that I over-interpret, MediaTek's naming of new products has always been "hidden mystery". When Huawei first released the Kirin 990, MediaTek released the Tianji 1000 in two months, implying that it was one generation ahead of the Kirin 990.
Not to mention the Tianji 9000, which rubbed the heat of the Kirin 9000, so that the saying that "the chip drawing was picked up at the doorstep" was rampant.
From Tianji 7000 to Tianji 8000, MediaTek's "careful thinking" is actually very easy to understand. It hopes that the positioning of the Tianji 8000 can be higher, at least it does not look much worse than the Tianji 9000. This is very similar to Qualcomm's thinking, and the birth of the Snapdragon 7 series is also for the same purpose.
According to the time point, the Tianji 9000 model will be the first to be listed, and the Tianji 8000 model will be a little later.
From the news currently exposed, a prediction can be made: in the first half of the year, Tianji 9000 slightly beat the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, followed by the Tianji 8000 to beat the Snapdragon 870, Snapdragon 888, and then the high-general TSMC version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 flipped.
The mobile phone market in 2022 is destined to be a fierce tug-of-war, I am ready to start watching the drama, what about you?