Recent reports indicate MediaTek plans on taking the wraps off its next-gen flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9500, next month. The SoC will be adopted by a slew of Chinese OEMs and has now appeared on Geekbench aboard the Vivo X300.
The chipset visited the popular benchmark platform on a device bearing the model number “V20509A”. That phone is said to be the Vivo X300, which can be expected to debut in China before the end of the year as a direct rival to the Xiaomi 15’s (buy on Amazon) successor.
Unfortunately, the Dimensity 9500 fails to show off its performance chops in this listing. It manages scores of just 2,485 and 7,321 on the single-code and multi-core tests respectively. That’s performance on par with 2023’s Dimensity 9300, indicating that the test was carried out with the chipset in some sort of shackled form.
The listing itself reveals some key bits of information on the Dimensity 9500. The chipset will maintain the octa-core setup of its predecessor, but with four cores running at 2.70 GHz, three cores at 3.50 GHz, and a prime core at 4.21 GHz. It’s unknown exactly what cores those will be, but prior information points at new Cortex A7-series cores and a new Cortex X9-series core from ARM. On the GPU end, the listing also confirms the presence of ARM’s new Mali-G1-Ultra MC12 as previously reported.
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