The performance of the new generation flagship Dimensity 9300 all-large-core CPU is skyrocketing, and the power consumption is reduced by 50%, which is too expected!
A big V revealed that MediaTek's flagship mobile phone processor Dimensity 9300 will be launched at the end of the year, using the highly anticipated "full core" CPU architecture design, 8 cores are divided into 4 X4 super large cores and 4 A720 large cores, the performance exceeds A17, and the power consumption is reduced by more than 50%.
So, what is "full big core"? As we all know, the CPU of the current flagship mobile phone chip is generally composed of 8 cores, generally including super large cores, large cores, small cores, this time MediaTek directly removed the small cores, with super large core + large core scheme to design the flagship chip architecture, discerning people know at a glance that this time is running for the performance ceiling. Some insiders said that this "big core start" design idea, or will be the future flagship mobile phone chip trend, in other words, 2024 flagship mobile phone processor is a full core, this year is really rolled up to a new height...
In fact, MediaTek has always had a tradition of preemptively using Arm's new IP, and in previous years, the flagship mobile phone chip Dimensity used the latest CPU and GPU IP of that year. Recently, Xu Jingquan, Senior Deputy General Manager of MediaTek and General Manager of Wireless Communication Business Unit, also made a public speech: "Arm's 2023 IP will lay a good foundation for the next generation of Dimensity flagship mobile chips, and we will provide amazing performance and energy efficiency through breakthrough architecture design and technological innovation." This also conclusively confirms that Dimensity's next-generation flagship core Dimensity 9300 will adopt Arm's new IP for 2023. It can be seen that the CPU of Dimensity's flagship will still be the latest X4 and A720 this year, and at the same time has achieved an unprecedented upgrade in architecture design.
With the iteration of Android applications in recent years, the functions of daily APP have been continuously added, so that the actual load of the past "low-load" applications is not low. Obviously, MediaTek has also seen this trend early, so it decided to replace the previous small core work with a low load state with a large core to achieve higher energy efficiency, that is, the full large core works efficiently, this breakthrough architecture design is very imaginative.
Some media believe that the decreasing small cores in the industry will guide application developers to more actively call the ultra-large cores and large cores of flagship chips, and its benefits are to obtain innate advantages in performance and energy efficiency from the architectural level in applications that require a lot of complex calculations such as games. It can be seen that from hardware to software, and then to the entire ecosystem will support the all-core CPU architecture, which means that whether it is single-core performance or multi-core performance, whether it is single-threaded or multi-threaded computing, the "all-core" design will leave all the traditional architecture behind and take over as a new trend in the development of flagship chip design.
In this regard, the well-known technology media Geek Bay believes that the all-large-core CPU architecture used by Dimensity 9300, in fact, this crazy heap scale approach to energy efficiency, large-scale low frequency does help to achieve stronger energy efficiency under medium and high loads. If you can optimize low loads, you will not be uncompetitive. As for cutting small cores, I am not surprised, Apple has long been a large core as a small core, considering the performance of the overall trend of the industry in recent years, Android will go in this direction sooner or later. It's just that the 4 X4s really blew me away. If the extreme performance is so aggressive, the power consumption can be controlled on a daily basis, which is indeed worth looking forward to.
From a super large core with the rest of the large core, small core to fight the world, to every nucleus in the whole large core is very capable of fighting, and whether it is a single challenge or a team battle can be hard, this is some eight immortals across the sea to show their powers, I have to say, the times have changed... If the news is accurate, in the historical process of the current flagship chips are cutting "small cores", the design of the flagship architecture of the whole large core can be said to be a generation ahead, and the new architecture vs the traditional architecture will stage a good show of the ultimate battle at the end of the year.
According to the information released by Arm, the Cortex-X4 ultra-large core based on Armv9 has once again broken through the performance limits of smartphones, improving performance by 15% compared to X3, and a new energy-efficient microarchitecture based on the same process can reduce power consumption by 40%. The Cortex-A720 will become the mainstream big core next year, which can improve the sustained performance of mobile chips and is the main core of the new CPU cluster.
Looking at the currently known energy efficiency performance of Dimensity 9300, under its original 4 X4 and 4 A720 all-core CPU architecture, the power consumption is reduced by more than 50% compared with the previous generation, which has the energy efficiency gain brought by Arm's new IP, but also indispensable to MediaTek's new technologies in the core, scheduling and other aspects, due to the lack of information currently available, the specific implementation method we do not know.
A while ago, the rumors on the Internet about the Dimensity 9300 iteration should most likely refer to this CPU architecture breakthrough, it is too early to draw conclusions, and there may be new surprises in the future. In the past two years, MediaTek Dimensity flagship has gradually stood firm from impacting the high-end, in fact, a large part of the credit lies in the breakthrough of chip performance and energy efficiency. At the end of this year, the first echelon of the flagship must be a situation of immortal fighting, everyone is anxious, must take fierce materials to stimulate the market, squeeze toothpaste is definitely going out, I hope to watch these 300 rounds of good drama at the end of the year!