In the afternoon, MediaTek Tianji's 9000 5G mobile platform was officially released.
The parameters of Tianji 9000 have been described in detail before, and here is a simple review.
It uses TSMC's 4nm process and is the first chip to use this process.
The CPU is partially Armv9 architecture and contains a 3.05GHz Cortex-X2 large core, three 2.85GHz Cortex-A710 medium cores, and four 1.8GHz Cortex-A510 energy-efficient cores. In addition, 8MB L3 cache and 6MB system cache (SLC) are also provided, and the official said that compared with the 2021 flagship, the performance is 35% higher and the energy efficiency is 37%.
The GPU is arm mali-G710 MC10, which means a 35% increase in performance and a 60% increase in energy efficiency.
Compared with the Snapdragon 8, the Core Frequency of the Tianji 9000 is higher (the Snapdragon 8 core is 3GHz, the middle core is 2.5GHz), and the size of the cache is also much larger.
And not only are L3 and SLC caches larger, each small core is also allocated 256KB L2 cache, not as Arm officially designed, so that the two A510s share the L2 cache.
▲ Source: Arm official website
Since the Cortex-X2 large core itself does not support 32-bit applications, the higher frequency A710 core can provide a better operating environment for some domestic software.
A larger cache can effectively improve the efficiency of the processor, but it also puts forward higher requirements for the size of the core and heat control, and this part should be the contribution of TSMC's 4nm process.
These give MediaTek the courage to say that compared with the latest flagship competitors, the CPU multi-core performance of the Tianji 9000 has increased by 20%.
This time MediaTek still did not pile too much material on the GPU, and only had one more core in addition to the architecture upgrade.
It doesn't have around 20 cores like the Kirin 9000 and Google Tensor.
In this regard, MediaTek officially said that on the one hand, it takes into account the performance of power consumption control and long-term use, on the other hand, the current mobile game cannot squeeze out more core performance.
Therefore, after testing a variety of schemes, the Tianji 9000 is still set to the design of a ten-core GPU.
At the same time, the official did not give the GPU performance comparison between the Tianji 9000 and the "latest flagship competitors", and I think the probability will be worse.
However, mediatek Tianji 9000 supports LPDDR5x, which means that the memory frequency can be pulled higher, which should be able to make up for the disadvantage of GPU scale to a certain extent.
For the power consumption and temperature control mentioned many times, MediaTek said that the Tianji 9000 not only optimizes each IP module in this regard, but also adds a global energy efficiency optimization technology to fully control the power consumption performance of the chip.
Implemented into the actual experience, it is that the Tianji 9000 can achieve better power consumption control compared with this year's Android flagship under the three officially defined light, medium and heavy use scenarios of daily browsing, video recording and games.
For games that you may care more about, mediatek Tianji 9000 brings HuperEngine 5.0, which is optimized for power, networking, control and picture quality.
Below, I will also introduce these aspects.
First of all, the picture, Tianji 9000 in addition to the Tianji 1200 has better game performance, support FHD + 180Hz and 2K 144Hz display, hardware-level MEMC, AI-based picture quality enhancement and super score, SDR to HDR, and a lot of eye protection functions.
Regarding these, MediaTek officially said that after all, it is also a good TV chip manufacturer, showing that this link naturally cannot be left behind.
The Tianji 9000 is also optimized for the light chasing engine, which can be deeply integrated with the game engine.
Above, the Tianji 9000 brings Intelligent Display Sync 2.0 variable refresh rate technology, which can intelligently synchronize the screen refresh rate with the game frame rate, making the operation more handy.
On the network side, the M80 built-in M80 of the Tianji 9000 supports the 3GPP R16 specification, which is faster to download and uplink, and can also ensure the network experience in the case that the network quality is not very good.
If these are painting cakes above, after reading the following sentence, more people should feel that this wave is stable.
After saying this, I believe that many people and I are the same concern: that is, whether the Tianji 9000 will be used for flagship machines, or whether it will be used for positioning sub-flagship products like this year's Tianji 1200.
According to the statements of each family, my feeling is that there is a drama this time.
However, compared with the Formation of Motorola and Xiaomi after Snapdragon 8, the Tianji 9000 is much more harmonious, and the manufacturer's wording is more exquisite and cautious. This time, there is no brand, and the PPT of the first year of X was released.
For example, OPPO is the "first launch", vivo is the "first adopter", Redmi is the "first batch", and glory is "will cooperate in depth".
But I always feel that this time there is one less brand, and you can guess who it is (hint: in Guangdong).
Finally, MediaTek said it will launch the Tianji 8000 next year, but did not announce the specific content, I think its positioning should be close to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 series.