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MediaTek's new smartphone chip beats Qualcomm's star in benchmark

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The battle between mobile chip manufacturers continues to rage, with MediaTek and Qualcomm having some of the most popular “battles.”

Well, there's another novelty to boost speed comparisons between System-on-Chips (SoCs) for smartphones, and it seems that MediaTek, for now, has an advantage in low-end SoCs.

The protagonist is called Dimensity 8400, it will arrive only at the end of 2024 and will not even be the most important chip from this Taiwanese manufacturer. But the performance in recent benchmark tests puts it at the top of Qualcomm's benchmark releases.

The new MediaTek Dimensity 8400 chip is expected to launch in late 2024.
Even without being a benchmark chip, the Dimensity 8400 outperformed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in benchmark tests.
Photo: Gizmochina, via PhoneArena

Xiaomi is interested in the low and mid-range segments.

The information comes from a “leaked” post. Digital Chat Station On his Weibo account, he stated that the Dimensity 8400 achieved a score of between 1.7 million and 1.8 million points in the benchmark tests. Antutu.

These values ​​exceed the maximum of 1.7 million points obtained in the same tests conducted on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 – one of Qualcomm's reference chipsets for the mid-range segment.

Article from Phone yard The Dimensity 8400 fits into a smartphone segment priced around $200, making MediaTek's upcoming chip a more powerful and cheaper option than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

According to the same source, Xiaomi will be one of the manufacturers working on several Redmi smartphone models that could include chipsets like the Dimensity 8400, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and even the Dimensity 9300+, a version of the best-selling Dimensity 9300, but with more AI support.

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