MediaTek has announced its latest mid-range chipset called the Dimensity 8300. It offers major performance improvements, and AI features at a lower price tag. The 4nm processor will arrive as the successor to the MediaTek Dimensity 8200 from last year and compete against the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3.
MediaTek Dimensity 8300 Announced As Competitor To Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
The MediaTek Dimensity 8300 is an octa-core chipset based on the ARMv9 architecture. It consists of 4 ARM Cortex A715 cores at 3.35 GHz and four Cortex-A510 cores clocked at 2.2GHz.
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Furthermore, the company claims it offers 20 per cent faster CPU performance and 30 per cent better power efficiency.
It also brings serious improvements with the ARM Mali-G615 GPU with 60 per cent performance gains and 55 per cent power efficiency than its predecessor.
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Moreover, the company claims 17 per cent faster app cold launch and 47 faster app launches from standby.
The processor also supports quad-channel LPDDR5X RAM running at 8,533Mbps speeds and UFS 4.0 storage with MCQ (Multi-Circular Queue).
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The MediaTek APU 780 brings generative AI features for the first time to a mid-range processor. It supports Stable Diffusion and LLM with up to 10 billion parameters.
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Furthermore, the chipset offers 3.3 times faster AI performance than its predecessor. The new Imagiq 980 ISP can support a 320-megapixel camera sensor with the ability to simultaneously record dual 4K HDR videos at 60 FPS.
The new chip has MediaTek MiraVision 880 to optimize the real-time picture quality on the display. It supports WQHD+ displays at 120Hz and Full-HD+ panels at 180Hz.
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There is support for HDR10+, Smart BluLight Defender and 4K AV1 media decoding. The chipset has a fully integrated 5G modem with 3CC carrier aggregation for connectivity.
It is capable of providing up to 5.17Gbps downlink speeds on sub-6GHz networks. You also get support for Wi-Fi 6E with double the bandwidth and Bluetooth 5.4.
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MediaTek says smartphones with the chipset will arrive by the end of this year. The upcoming Xiaomi Redmi K70E will launch with the new chipset later this month.
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