Dimensity 9400: A Performance Upgrade for Gaming, the Future Benchmark for Flagship Performance?

Dimensity 9400: A Performance Upgrade for Gaming, the Future Benchmark for Flagship Performance?The vivo X200 series and OPPO Find X8 series, flagship models powered by MediaTek's latest generation flagship SoC, the Dimensity 9400, have been released one after another. In addition to the usual upgrades, the gaming performance of the new flagships from vivo and OPPO has been praised by a wide range of users

Dimensity 9400: A Performance Upgrade for Gaming, the Future Benchmark for Flagship Performance?

The vivo X200 series and OPPO Find X8 series, flagship models powered by MediaTek's latest generation flagship SoC, the Dimensity 9400, have been released one after another. In addition to the usual upgrades, the gaming performance of the new flagships from vivo and OPPO has been praised by a wide range of users. Many consumers who are still waiting on the sidelines have doubts, is the Dimensity 9400 really that good, and why is its gaming performance so strong?

In fact, starting with the Dimensity 9000, MediaTek's Dimensity flagship SoC has gained a foothold in the high-end market with its advantages of high performance and low power consumption. The outstanding performance of the Dimensity 9400 is inseparable from MediaTek's long-term technical accumulation. The all-large-core design it adopts has pushed CPU performance to new heights.

Of course, in today's era of ever-increasing user demand for game graphics and frame rate, the GPU's importance to the gaming experience may be even higher, and it is also a major highlight of the Dimensity 9400 that is often overlooked. Official MediaTek data shows that the Dimensity 9400 is equipped with the Arm Immortalis-G925 GPU, which has 12 cores, a 41% peak performance increase, and a 44% power reduction. It also has a 40% increase in ray tracing performance.

In actual tests by Lei Technology, the vivo X200, equipped with the Dimensity 9400, ran the large mobile game "Genshin Impact" for 30 minutes, with the frame rate consistently stable at 60 FPS, an average frame rate of 61.22 FPS, and no noticeable frame drops except for scene transitions. The most ridiculous thing is that the average power consumption of Dimensity 9400 was only 1122.52 mW (1.12 W), and it was almost impossible to feel the phone getting hot.

Generally speaking, when running large games, the SoC will experience significantly increased power consumption and heat due to excessive pressure, affecting the user's gaming experience. The Dimensity 9400 obviously breaks this norm, offering both a significant performance improvement and better power consumption and heat performance than the previous generation.

The reason for this lies not only in the Arm Immortalis-G925 GPU core but also in MediaTek HyperEngine's contribution. HyperEngine's adaptive technology 3.0 can accurately regulate the chip's frequency and power consumption. Coupled with the segment pre-processing function, it can eliminate obscured parts of the picture and only render effective images, further reducing the SoC's workload. This naturally significantly reduces the Dimensity 9400's power consumption when running games.

The Dimensity 9400 GPU's Tiler unit has also doubled its throughput, enabling the GPU to render images twice as fast. With the combined power of hardware and software, the Dimensity 9400 can unleash high performance while ensuring low power consumption in high-load conditions.

In addition, the 40% increase in ray tracing performance of the Dimensity 9400 is worth noting. In the PC gaming world, ray tracing technology is already widely used. This technology can render images in real time based on the scene, enhancing lighting effects for a more realistic and immersive experience. It can also help game companies save resources during game development. Currently, some games like "Dark Zone Survival" and "NBA 2K," have added support for Dimensity 9400's ray tracing capability. It is foreseeable that mobile games will continue to pursue higher visual fidelity in the future, and the role of ray tracing will become increasingly significant. The Dimensity 9400, with its powerful GPU and ray tracing performance, is not only excellent in current gaming performance but also has the ability to compete in the future.

Around 2020, there were discussions online about mobile SoC performance being excessive, with many users believing that the performance of mobile SoCs was already sufficient. However, in the minds of both mobile phone manufacturers and SoC manufacturers, mobile SoCs should not only be sufficient for the present but also for the future to prevent users from needing to replace their phones frequently, reducing consumers' purchasing costs.

The advent of the AI era has had a certain impact on the mobile phone industry. The Dimensity 9400 is undoubtedly a landmark achievement for MediaTek. It excels in CPU, GPU, and energy efficiency, as well as AI performance, supporting on-device large models and generative AI. Consumers who have purchased flagship models equipped with the Dimensity 9400 chip will not have to worry about their phone's CPU, GPU, or AI performance being insufficient for at least three years.

MediaTek will continue to enhance the performance and energy efficiency of its SoCs, constantly pushing the boundaries of CPU, GPU, and AI, and exploring new heights of user experience.