MediaTek has unveiled its "the most powerful and capable" mobile platform, the Dimensity 9500. The company says the chip will set new standards for local AI capabilities on smartphones, deliver console-level gaming performance, and deliver better power efficiency.
The Dimensity 9500 uses the third-generation All Big Core CPU design, which combines an ultra-core clocked at 4.21 GHz, three premium cores and four performance cores, as well as quad-channel UFS 4.1 storage.
According to MediaTek, this design delivers 32% higher single-core and 17% higher multi-core performance compared to the previous generation, while the ultra-core delivers 55% lower power consumption at peak performance. The company notes that the processor is also 30% more power efficient when multitasking in games and social audio calling apps.
The new cache and memory architecture used in the Dimensity 9500 includes the industry's first support for 4-channel UFS 4.1, which the company claims doubles read/write speeds and speeds up loading large AI models by 40%. The second-generation Dimensity Scheduling Engine translates this power into smoother responsiveness and consistent performance even under intensive workloads.
The Dimensity 9500 also features an integrated ARM G1-Ultra GPU, which delivers 33% higher peak performance and 42% better power efficiency, and offers frame rate interpolation up to 120 FPS with ray tracing. The company says its collaboration with leading studios, as well as support for MegaLights in Unreal Engine 5.6 and Nanite in Unreal Engine 5.5, enable AAA-level real-time rendering.
For AI, the Dimensity 9500 features the ninth-generation MediaTek NPU 990 with Generative AI Engine 2.0, which doubles the processing power and implements 1.58-bit Bit Net large model processing, reducing power consumption by 33%. At the same time, the new chip is the first to support an integrated in-memory computing architecture for the ultra-efficient neural processor, which also reduces power consumption and allows AI models to run continuously.
For photography, the new chip has the Imagiq 1190, which supports RAW pre-processing, shooting at resolutions up to 200MP, continuous focus tracking at 30fps, and a new portrait engine. The processor also supports 4K 60FPS video recording.
The first flagship smartphones based on the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 are expected to appear in the fourth quarter of 2025.