Dimensity 9500 specs leak: all-big CPU cores, monster NPU and other improvements

MediaTek is working on its 2025 flagship chipset and it sounds like it’s going to be a monster, based on information shared by Digital Chat Station. The chip will be fabbed on TSMC’s N3P node (the 9400 and 9400+ are N3E) and will feature an all-large CPU core architecture, plus a significantly more powerful NPU.

According to the leakster, the Dimensity 9500 will have this CPU configuration: 1x Travis + 3x Alto + 4x Gelas. We don’t know what Alto is, but Travis and Gelas are the next Cortex-X and Cortex-A7xx cores from ARM as you can see in this roadmap from WikiChip:

Unofficial roadmap of ARM Cortex designs (image source)

Alto is not a small core, Nevis is the new Cortex-A5xx, so it might be a modification of one of the older A7xx cores. As for Travis, rumor has it that it will be clocked at over 4GHz.

Anyway, the chipset will have 16MB of L3 cache plus 10MB of system level cache. It will support LPDDR5X RAM (up to 10,667Mbps) and 4-lane UFS 4.1.

The GPU will be an Immortalis-Drage with improved ray tracing and reduced power consumption.

AI processing will be accelerated by NPU 9.0, which is expected to deliver 100 TOPS. There are no official numbers for the Dimensity 9400, but some reports put it at 50 TOPS, though we’ve seen higher numbers.

PS. Digital Chat Station teased that MediaTek will release the Dimensity 8450 soon. As for the Dimensity 9500, that’s probably coming in October or November.

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