Qualcomm and MediaTek normally release two flagship smartphone SoCs every year. This time, there has been no word about Qualcomm’s plans for a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 3 model. MediaTek, on the other hand, plans to continue this trend with the Dimensity 9300+, which will power the Vivo X100s Pro and Redmi K70 Ultra. A Weibo post has now (H/T @faridofanani96 on X) revealed insight on its preliminary performance.
The primary Cortex-X4 core of the Dimensity 9300 is clocked at 3.4 GHz, according to a Geekbench listing of the Vivo X100s, while the subsequent cluster (3x Cortex-X4) operates at 2.85 GHz. The clock speed of the Arm Immortalis-G720 MP12 GPU (1,300 MHz) and all four Cortex-A720 cores stay at 2.0 GHz. It is a modest spec update that yields an equally minor performance improvement, much like its predecessors.
This results in the Dimensity 9300+ scoring 2,305,607 points in AnTuTu, remarkably higher than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3’s best score of 2,138,119. Similarly, the Dimensity 9300+ scores 2,313 and 7,743 in Geekbench 6.2, once again managing to outperform Qualcomm’s flagship.
In our in-depth Vivo X100 Pro review (curr. $929 on Amazon), we found the Dimensity 9300 to thermal throttle heavily under sustained loads. Whether or not the Vivo X100s will be afflicted by the same issue remains to be seen. Then again, this gives MediaTek a brief period of time when it is ahead of Qualcomm in benchmarks because Qualcomm has no plans for a mid-cycle refresh.
