Dimensity 9500 Early Benchmarks Hint at Beastly Performance Ahead

The MediaTek Dimensity 9500 has made its early benchmark debut, revealing a number of promising but preliminary specs.

Spotted on Geekbench 6, the new chipset shows signs of MediaTek experimenting with different configurations, as evidenced by a unique 8-core CPU setup in a 1+3+4 layout. This differs from the more standard 2+6 architecture, suggesting the firm may be testing multiple designs.

Clock speeds are currently capped at 3.23GHz in this engineering sample, although prior leaks indicated peak speeds of 4.00GHz for the performance cores. The benchmarked device also featured 16GB of RAM and a robust 12-core Mali-G1 Ultra GPU, making it clear that the 9500 is targeting the high-performance tier.

While the test didn’t yield single-core or multi-core CPU scores, the OpenCL result gives us a peek into the GPU’s potential

. Insiders claim the final version will deliver over 11,000 points in multi-core performance, potentially beating Apple’s rumored A19 Pro. Expected single-core scores are said to top 3,900 points.

MediaTek appears to be stacking the deck: the L3 cache has been expanded to 16MB, and the SLC cache now sits at 10MB. More interestingly, the chip could support ARM’s Scalable Matrix Extension (SME), a feature that might push performance to unprecedented heights-potentially rivaling Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2.

That said, don’t read too much into these early benchmarks. They often reflect under-optimized firmware and unfinished silicon. If history is any guide, the final Dimensity 9500 will be far more polished, and we’ll see what it’s really capable of once MediaTek officially unveils it.