MediaTek conscionable unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro – this is the company’s archetypal 2nm chipset and the archetypal to usage Arm’s next-gen CPU and GPU designs. It brings notable show upgrades crossed the committee with peculiar attraction paid to AI compute.
The CPU layout has been reshuffled – determination are present 2 Ultra-class CPU cores astatine the disbursal of 1 tiny Pro core. The nonstop configuration is 2x Arm C2-Ultra + 3x C2-Pro + 3x C2-Pro (we don’t cognize the timepiece speeds yet). The CPU promises 17% higher single-core show and 37% higher efficiency. For multi-threaded tasks, show is 15% higher and ratio is simply a whopping 61% better.
The GPU is simply a Mali-G2 Ultra NX with enactment for 185+ fps gaming. Peak show is 27% higher, ray tracing is 18% faster and powerfulness ratio has improved by 24%. The neural graphics rendering enables amended prime ace resolution.

The chipset is equipped with 16MB of L3 cache and 10MB of SoC cache. It supports some LPDDR5X and LPDDR6 RAM (33% faster, but it’s much costly too) and UFS 5.0 storage.
The MediaTek NPU 1090 doubles the INT4 show of the NPU 990 wrong the Dimensity 9500. It besides brings 55% amended token procreation per watt and 51% faster pre-fill (reading the prompt). There is simply a hardware compression motor for the KV cache.
The Dimensity 9600 Pro allows the ISP to pat straight into the NPU and usage it to process photos and videos. Sensors up to 200MP are supported and video tin beryllium recorded astatine up to 8K astatine 60fps. The video decoding motor present supports VVC (aka H.266).
The archetypal smartphone with the Dimensity 9600 Pro has already been announced and determination are much to come. And no, we don’t cognize if and erstwhile a vanilla Dimensity 9600 is coming.
| Node | 3nm | 2nm |
| CPU prime | 1x Arm C1-Ultra (2MB L2) | 2x Arm C2-Ultra (2MB L2) |
| CPU middle | 3x Arm C1-Premium (1MB L2) | 3x Arm C2-Pro (1MB L2) |
| CPU small | 4x Arm C1-Pro (512KB L2) | 3x Arm C2-Pro (512KB L2) |
| L3 cache | 16MB | 16MB |
| SLC | 10MB | 10MB |
| RAM | LPDDR5X 10667 | LPDDR5X 10667, LPDDR6 10667 |
| Storage | UFS 4.1 (4-lane) | UFS 5.0 |
| GPU | Arm Mali-G1 MC12 | Arm Mali-G2 Ultra NX |
| NPU | NPU 990 | NPU 1090 |
| Modem | Rel-17, sub-6GHz 4x4 | Rel-17, sub-6GHz 4x4 |
| GNSS | GPS (L1CA+L5+L1C), BeiDou (B1l+B1c+B2b), Glonass (L10F), Galileo (E1+E5a+E5b) | GPS (L1CA+L5+L1C), BeiDou (B1l+B1c+B2b), Glonass (L10F), Galileo (E1+E5a+E5b) |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 7 (be), tri-band, up to 7.3GHz | Wi-Fi 7 (be), tri-band, up to 7.3GHz |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 6.0 | Bluetooth 6.2 |
| Camera | up to 320MP, 8K30 10-bit (HEVC, AVC), 8K60 8-bit (HEVC) | up to 200MP, 8K30 10-bit (HEVC, AVC), 8K60 8-bit (HEVC) |
| Video | 8K60 10-bit (HEVC, AVC, VP9, AV1) | 8K60 10-bit (VVC, HEVC, AVC, VP9, AV1) |
| Display | up to WQHD+ 180Hz | up to WQHD+ 180Hz |


























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