MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 To Be The World’s First Smartphone SoC To Get LPDDR5T RAM Support With Nearly 10Gbps Throughput

The Dimensity 9300 rumors already pit the upcoming MediaTek flagship smartphone chipset to be a worthy competitor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and now, it looks like it will have one advantage that no one in the industry has; support for the next-generation LPDDR5T RAM.

New rumor also claims that unlike the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the Dimensity 9300 will feature four Cortex-X4 cores

With support for the LPDDR5T standard, the Dimensity 9300 can deliver unrivaled memory bandwidth of 9.6Gbps, making it faster than the fastest LPDDR5X RAM, which tops out at 8.5Gbps. However, it is likely that MediaTek’s upcoming silicon is backwards compatible with the older-generation memory standard, so manufacturers that want to save on hefty costs will likely be using LPDDR5X chips in their handsets.

Apart from gaining support for LPDDR5T RAM, Digital Chat Station has shared other specifications of the Dimensity 9300, with the SoC rumored to ship with a vastly different CPU configuration than its upcoming rival, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Right off the bat, MediaTek’s high-end chipset is said to feature four Cortex-X4 cores, and four Cortex-A720 cores, with no power-efficiency cores.

This unique 8-core configuration means that the Dimensity 9300 could beat the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in multi-threaded scores, but the same cores may end up being the chipset’s Achilles’ Heel, as the lack of efficiency cores means that any smartphone or tablet featuring it may lag behind the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in delivering promising battery life. Complementing the eight cores is the ARM Immortalis G720 GPU, which also gets support for features like ray tracing.

While the Weibo post does not talk about the benefits of gaining support for LPDDR5T memory, we reported about an earlier rumor claiming that the Dimensity 9300 would be 20 percent faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in multi-core results, but actual numbers were not provided. Since MediaTek is said to launch its top-end silicon before the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, we might stumble across more details on the unveiling, including the advantages of LPDDR5T, but for now, we recommend being patient for the time being.

Written by Omar Sohail