The rate at which the details of MediaTek’s 2025 flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9500, are racing through, it appears that we will know all there is to know about the new silicon by next month. On this occasion, a tipster has shared additional information about the SoC, mentioning that the Dimensity 9500 will adopt the new ‘Travis’ & ‘Gelas’ CPU architecture, which ARM has yet to announce, so let us dive in immediately.
The remaining specifications of the Dimensity 9500 shared by the tipster are consistent with previous rumors that arrived this week
Not much is known about the ‘Travis’ & ‘Gelas’ CPU architecture, but tipster Digital Chat Station has mentioned that the Dimensity 9500 will include a cluster of Cortex-X930 and Cortex-A730 cores. In the latest post on Weibo, the ‘2 + 6’ configuration is the same as the one we reported previously, indicating that MediaTek will shift away from its current ‘1 + 3 + 4’ cluster and adopt a similar approach to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2.
We have yet to learn why the Taiwanese fabless manufacturer will proceed with a different CPU cluster, but it could be related to maintaining competition with its rivals. The tipster also reveals that the Dimensity 9500 will support ARM’s Scalable Matrix Extension (SME). For those who forgot, we have mentioned that both the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 and Dimensity 9500 will have support for SME next year, resulting in a 20 percent performance improvement in multi-threaded workloads.
Scalable Matrix Extension is an instruction set that allows silicon to handle complex workloads more efficiently. It was learned that Apple’s M4 supports the ARMv9 architecture that, as a result, has support for SME, which is why it obtained an incredibly high score in Geekbench 6. Coming back to the Dimensity 9500, MediaTek is rumored to leverage TSMC’s 3nm N3P technology, with the highest frequency said to be 4.00GHz, which, again, is something we discussed before.
Interestingly, the tipster notes that next year’s performance leap will be massive but leaves out any kind of early benchmarking results. Even if the numbers were shared, it is way too early to get excited about a chipset release that will happen next year, so while we are thrilled to talk about these details, let us wait until the third quarter of 2025 so we have the bulk of the information ready for readers.
News Source: Digital Chat Station
About the author: Omar Sohail is a reporter and analyst for Wccftech's mobile section, specializing in the technology and business of the mobile industry. His expertise lies in the intricate hardware supply chain, covering developments in semiconductor manufacturing, chip lithography, and camera sensor technology.
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