MediaTek is expected to announce its Dimensity 9300 sometime next week, so it was only a matter of time before the chipset was spotted in Geekbench 6’s single-core and multi-core benchmarks. While the results show that the upcoming silicon has impressive gains compared to its predecessors, even with its more powerful CPU cluster, it is unable to beat the A17 Pro.
Apple’s A17 Pro multi-core gains are next to nothing against the Dimensity 9300, but it is still a victory regardless
The Dimensity 9300 was apparently tested in an unreleased OPPO PHZ110 sporting 16GB of RAM and an 8-core CPU cluster, where the best-performing core sports a clock speed of 3.25GHz. In Geekbench 6, the SoC obtains a single-core and multi-core score of 2,139 and 7,110, respectively. Keep in mind that this year, the Dimensity 9300 features no power-efficient Cortex-A520 cores, so a combination of Cortex-X4 and Cortex-A720 should help in the multi-core result, but that is not the case here.
Unfortunately, even with this impressive configuration, the Dimensity 9300 is no match for the A17 Pro, with the latter achieving a 36.3 percent lead in the single-core test and a measly 1.7 percent lead in multi-core. While we can consider both SoCs equivalent in the multi-core category, the single-core one is where Apple’s A-series has historically performed significantly better, and even a higher-clocked Cortex-X4 was not able to tackle the A17 Pro on this occasion.
Of course, we may see the commercial units of the Dimensity 9300 perform slightly better when found in a slew of 2024 Android flagships. Since MediaTek’s latest chipset predominantly uses Cortex-X4 cores, it is possible that the power draw of the chip is higher this time, which might be causing the SoC’s temperature to rise, resulting in thermal throttling and a performance reduction.
We understand that TSMC’s N4P process is said to be energy-efficient, but a smartphone’s passive cooling solution also needs to be adequate in taming those thermals. Without seeing actual handsets performed in real-world tests, we cannot comment on the performance of the Dimensity 9300, but we will continue to provide updates to our readers, so stay tuned.
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