Things have just gotten more interesting as the MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus has just been launched. The chipset will most certainly be a tough competition for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 since it is a mid-year refresh of the Dimensity 9200, MediaTek’s flagship smartphone processor in 2023.
The Cortex-X3 big core now hits 3.35GHz, up from 3.05GHz, while the Cortex-A715 medium cores now hit 3GHz, up from 2.85GHz. The Cortex-A510 cores are however still pegged at 1.8GHz. The 3.35GHz clock speed is almost identical to the 3.36GHz peak clock speed in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy processor.
MediaTek claims that the Plus chipset’s GPU has received a 17% boost to clock speed. Although they did not specify the exact GPU clock speed, it is still the same Mali-G715 Immortalis MC11 GPU as before, complete with hardware-based ray tracing.
The rest of the chipset is the same as the standard Dimensity 9200, which includes an M80-based modem with mmWave 5G support (7.9Gbps downlink), a sixth-generation APU, support for up to 240Hz refresh rate at FHD+ resolutions, 8K recording capabilities, Bluetooth 5.3, and Wi-Fi 7.
In a review of the MediaTek Dimensity 9200 on the vivo X90 Pro, the phone delivered competitive single-core CPU performance while competing with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 phones in terms of GPU performance.
However, it lagged behind in multi-core CPU scores and GPU stress testing. It is uncertain if the clock speed boosts on the Dimensity 9200 Plus will be enough to address these weaknesses. Nevertheless, it could offer a significant upgrade for peak performance.
The first phones with the MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus will probably arrive later this month. Although there is no information about the availability of these devices yet, the vivo X90 Pro is currently the only Dimensity 9200 phone available in global markets. With the new clock speed upgrades, it will be interesting to see how the Dimensity 9200 Plus will perform against the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in upcoming smartphones.
