Mediatek has been doing things well for some time to try to be a stronger competition for Qualcomm, its biggest rival in the semiconductor segment for smartphones, and what better way to achieve this than to offer processor chipsets more powerful than those of its generation pass?
El Dimension 800U It's your hot new bet with excellent performance, which was just announced for the mid-range. This adapts to the latest connectivity trend, which is, nothing more and nothing less, the well-known 5G that, although it has not yet been greatly expanded throughout the world and is only available in certain cities and countries, it is increasingly taking more ground and is projected for 2021 and the years to come as the one that will replace 4G LTE in much of the world.
All about the new Mediatek Dimensity 800U chipset
The new Dimensity 800U processor chipset is an eight-core System-on-Chip which includes two ARM Cortex-A76 cores operating at a maximum clock frequency of 2.4 GHz and six Cortex-A55 cores operating at a rate of up to 2.0 GHz, both of which are focused on offering better energy efficiency, unlike the first mentioned, which are to provide the maximum possible performance when it is needed.
For graphics and better performance of games and multimedia content, comes with ARM's Mali-G57 GPU and is equipped with a separate Artificial Intelligence Processing Unit (APU), which optimizes task processing and works as a co-processor.
Mediatek Dimension 800U
The Dimensity 5U's 800G modem supports dual 5G + 5G dual SIM support, dual VoNR (Voice over New Radio), sub-6 GHz NSA / SA networks, which are the standard, and aggregation of two 5G carriers (2CC 5G-CA) . It also supports onboard MediaTek 5G UltraSave technology, whose role is to manage modem operations based on the network environment and the quality of data transmission to improve the battery life of mobile devices, so that the consumption in this chipset, in terms of connectivity, It is inferior to that of others with support for 5G networks, something good that is appreciated, since this network consumes significantly more than its predecessors.
Devices with Dimensity 800U can include an LPDDR4x RAM (up to 2.133 MHz) and UFS 2.2 storage. The SoC supports Full HD + displays with 120Hz refresh rates. For an enhanced viewing experience, it supports HDR10 + and MediaTek's MiraVision PQ engine with HDR optimization for different types of videos.
The IPS of the Mediatek Dimensity 800U supports image sensors up to 64 MP resolution and up to four rear cameras. Other processor features include support for multiple trigger words for different voice assistants, dual-mic noise reduction, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and support for Bluetooth 5.1.
MediaTek has claimed that the Dimensity 800U is designed to deliver 11% and 28% faster CPU and GPU performance, respectively, compared to the Dimensity 720 chipset, which debuted last month as one of its best performing solutions. for mid-range smartphones.
To put more into context about this comparison, the Dimensity 720 already mentioned is an eight-core chipset that has a configuration led by four Cortex-A76 cores at 2.0 GHz and another four Cortex-A55 at 2.0 GHz. This has the same 4 MHz LPDDR2.133X RAm memory and the GPU it boasts is the Mali-G75.
When will this new processor hit the market and on which phone will this new processor debut?
We must start by saying that phones with Dimensity chipsets have not yet been launched in markets outside of China, at least not officially.
The company recently confirmed that The first Dimensity-powered devices will debut in markets outside of China in the third quarter of this year. At present, there is no news about the first phone that will arrive with the new Dimensity 800U, which is why we have to wait for an official statement.