MediaTek Unveiled its Next Flagship Called ‘Dimensity 1000 5G’

• MediaTek presented their next-gen 5G flagship which performs better than Snapdragon 855 Plus.
• The new chip comes with eight cores and a Mali-G77 GPU, as well as the company’s latest AI version.
• The first smartphone manufacturer to deploy the new chip will be Blackview, possibly by early 2020.

It looks like the days of insignificance are coming to an end for MediaTek, as the Taiwanese chipset designer and manufacturer is ready to complete their come-back against Qualcomm. MediaTek crawled out of the mud pit in 2018 with AI-powered Helio chips, announced their first 5G chip on last December, and then focused on making them less power-hungry, more powerful, and better at heat dissipation. The result is a new flagship named “Dimensity 1000 5G”, which is an eight-core 6nm-node powerhouse that comes with a sub-6 GHz 5G modem and the latest MediaTek APU 3.0 AI engine. As for the cores, Dimensity features four 2.6 GHz Cortex-A77 and four 2 GHz Cortex-A55, while the graphics are undertaken by the Mali-G77 unit.

According to leaked AnTuTu benchmark reports, MediaTek’s upcoming flagship surprisingly beats Snapdragon 855 Plus and Kirin 990, which is impressive, to say the least. More specifically, the Dimensity’s AnTuTu score is 511000 points. Whether or not that will be enough to beat Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 865, we will have to wait and see. However, even if Dimensity comes second, the performance reports indicate that the chaotic gap has been clipped, and the difference now could be insignificant in day to day usage scenarios.

Although this is all undoubtedly impressive and positive for MediaTek, the chipmaker is still fighting to shake off their “cheap product” image. This means that the Dimensity is not likely to find its way inside prestigious and higher range mobile devices. However, none of this is Blackview’s concern, who knows how to play the “value for money” game for themselves and their fans. That said, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer has announced Blackview BV9900 based on a 5G MediaTek P90 and promised to release their next rugged flagship with a Dimensity chip beating inside it by the first quarter of 2020.

During the MediaTek conference that was held to make these exciting announcements, the company also informed the public of a new collaboration platform that they will form with Intel, aiming to help them develop reliable and cost-effective 5G solutions for the PCs market. These developments throw the ball to Qualcomm’s court, who will soon face not only performance challenges but also cost considerations. That said, for us consumers, the whole situation is positive and works to our benefit.

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