On September 22, MediaTek held a flagship chip launch event in Shenzhen, officially unveiling the new Dimensity 9500 flagship mobile platform. This year's Dimensity 9500 mobile platform features comprehensive upgrades and innovations compared to its predecessor, establishing a new benchmark for mobile terminal experiences through PC-level computing power with an all big core CPU, console-level rendering performance GPU, and dual NPU ultra-performance + ultra-efficiency architecture.

Recently, research firm Counterpoint Research released a report showing that global high-end smartphone sales in the first half of 2025 increased by 8% year-over-year, reaching a historic high for the same period. This growth rate exceeded the 4% year-over-year growth of the overall global smartphone market during the same period. Additionally, IDC's insights for China's smartphone market at the end of last year predicted that the market share for smartphones priced above $600 would reach 30.9% in 2025, representing a 2.1 percentage point increase year-over-year. As high-end phones gradually increase their market share, the product landscape is also transforming. The deepening integration of AI applications and rapid leaps in performance and efficiency are pushing the high-end smartphone market toward a new phase where "comprehensive experience is king." Consumers no longer focus solely on whether phones are powerful enough or have high specifications, but increasingly value whether a phone can bring real enjoyment and convenience to their lives, work, or entertainment. As a chip platform leading Android flagship terminal experience development, the Dimensity 9500 naturally embraces this trend. In this generation, you can see not only technological iteration and evolution, but also MediaTek's comprehensive attention and emphasis on actual implementation in terminal experiences.

**Third-Generation All Big Core CPU Delivers PC-Level Ultra-Strong Computing Power**

MediaTek began adopting innovative all big core architecture design with the Dimensity 9300, successfully leading the industry. Now, all big core architecture has become standard for flagship chips, and the Dimensity 9500's all big core architecture has reached its third generation. With revolutionary changes in CPU architecture, this year's Dimensity 9500 platform CPU undoubtedly represents one of the most significant upgrades.

Specifically, the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 CPU architecture features: - 1x Ultra-large core C1-Ultra 4.21GHz — 2MB L2 - 3x Ultra-large core C1-Premium 3.5GHz — 1MB L2 - 4x Large core C1-Pro 2.7GHz — 512KB L2

The CPU's L3 cache is further expanded to 16MB, with system cache remaining at 10MB. Based on TSMC's third-generation 3nm process technology, the Dimensity 9500 integrates over 30 billion transistors.

The Dimensity 9500 integrates SME2 matrix computation instruction set technology, significantly improving CPU performance when running AI instructions while notably optimizing efficiency. Additionally, the Dimensity 9500 platform introduces a new high-performance flash memory architecture, being the first to support 4-channel UFS4.1.

According to MediaTek's official introduction, the Dimensity 9500 achieves single-core scores exceeding 4,000 points and multi-core scores exceeding 11,000 points in GeekBench 6, with multi-core performance improved by over 17% and peak performance multi-core power consumption reduced by 37%. Previous testing with MediaTek's engineering machine showed GeekBench 6.4 scores of 3,626 points single-core and 10,720 points multi-core, delivering explosive performance for its generation. Since the engineering machine lacked optimized thermal design, limiting chip performance, we can expect further performance improvements in subsequent manufacturer production devices.

Thanks to the Dimensity 9500's core upgrades and architecture optimization, it achieves comprehensive ultra-high efficiency power saving across various high-frequency usage scenarios, such as mobile gaming + voice calls, video recording, video calls, and short video viewing, with peak power consumption reduced by up to 30%.

As mentioned earlier, for the Dimensity 9500, MediaTek's design philosophy from the beginning wasn't merely pursuing paper specification improvements, but translating these performance and efficiency advances into tangible user experience enhancements. For CPUs, the most fundamental and directly related aspect is daily usage fluidity. To achieve ultimate fluidity, MediaTek established five indicators: fast response, consistent reaction, smooth scrolling, quick app startup, and smooth full-frame visuals.

To achieve these five major indicators, MediaTek deployed the second-generation Dimensity scheduling engine, incorporating numerous technological innovations to collectively realize ultimate fluidity experiences. For instance, the super memory compression technology ensures every app startup is faster than competitors. MediaTek reports that in testing 20 applications across two startup rounds, the vivo X300 flagship powered by Dimensity 9500 required only 61 seconds, compared to 75 seconds for comparison device A.

MediaTek also introduced a consistency engine to reduce touch response latency during app startup. In similar testing, the Dimensity 9500-powered vivo X300 flagship achieved 42-millisecond app startup touch response latency with ±6 millisecond error margin, while the comparison device recorded 109 milliseconds and ±20 millisecond error margin respectively.

Furthermore, the Dimensity 9500 introduces an animation fluidity engine, significantly reducing stuttering in system animation rendering. In MediaTek's testing, the Dimensity 9500-powered OPPO Find X9 flagship achieved zero stutters in app startup animation tests, while the comparison device experienced 5 stutters.

MediaTek also introduced the new Computing Power Scheduling Engine 2.0, enabling deep system-level comprehensive computing power management. With this technology, the Dimensity 9500 running "PUBG Mobile" achieves 120fps full-frame performance while reducing power consumption by 14% compared to the previous generation.

**New Powerful GPU Delivers Strong Rendering Capabilities for Console-Level Handheld Experience**

Moving from CPU to GPU, and because GPU performance is closely tied to gaming experience, let's examine them together.

The MediaTek Dimensity 9500 flagship platform features the new G1-Ultra GPU, delivering 33% peak performance improvement and 42% peak power consumption reduction.

Previous testing of the Dimensity 9500 engineering machine showed impressive GPU performance results. In GFX Bench's 1440p Aztec Ruins Vulkan (High Tier) Offscreen test, it achieved 154 FPS. In 3D Mark's Steel Nomad Light test representing mobile GPU performance, the Dimensity 9500 GPU scored 3,405 points.

Gaming experience is most closely connected to GPU performance. On the Dimensity 9500 platform, MediaTek implemented rich technological innovations and breakthroughs to achieve console-level mobile gaming experiences. First, MediaTek equipped the G1-Ultra GPU with a new GPU Dynamic Cache architecture. Under this architecture, GPU direct cache capability opens up, with direct system cache access bringing more efficient computing and significantly optimized bandwidth efficiency. For example, when running "Zenless Zone Zero," it achieves over 600 MB/s bandwidth benefits with 60mAh power consumption reduction.

The Dimensity 9500 also leads in supporting cross-platform Vulkan 1.4, with significant enhancements in cross-platform data stream transmission, Dynamic Rendering Local Reads, and Scalar Block Layouts high-resolution rendering support. Major mobile games including "Honor of Kings," "Genshin Impact," and "Zenless Zone Zero" are transitioning to Vulkan. The Dimensity 9500 can achieve approximately 5% performance improvements when running these games.

Gaming technology algorithms have also been upgraded on the Dimensity 9500 platform, introducing multi-threaded load reduction technology that reasonably distributes rendering tasks, reducing main thread load by 6%. Additionally, the Dimensity Scheduling Engine 2.0 plays an important role in gaming scenarios, optimally allocating foreground and background resources to achieve best foreground application performance, gaining approximately 14% performance benefits.

The Dimensity frame interpolation technology has also reached version 3.0, expanding from last year's 30-60 fps interpolation to 60-120 fps capability while further reducing rendering latency and stuttering, achieving 40% power consumption reduction.

With the powerful G1-Ultra GPU and MediaTek's series of innovative technologies, the Dimensity 9500 supports up to 144fps gaming experiences. "PUBG Mobile" achieves 144 fps full-frame gaming throughout, and "Delta Force" also supports 144 fps full-frame gaming.

Previous gaming tests using Dimensity 9500 engineering machines showed impressive results. For "Honor of Kings" with maximum graphics settings on a 6.78-inch 1260×2800 resolution screen with 16GB LPDDR5X@10667 Mbps memory and 1TB UFS4.0 storage, two 5v5 matches over approximately 20 minutes achieved 119.8 fps average framerate with an essentially straight-line frame curve and very low 3.1W power consumption.

"Honkai: Star Rail" testing with maximum graphics settings involved running character Gepard in continuous sprints around Moment of Gold continent for approximately 15 minutes, achieving 57.3fps average framerate. The frame curve showed regular fluctuations, but frame drops and stuttering weren't noticeably perceptible during gameplay. Average power consumption was 6.9W, excellent performance for such demanding scenarios.

Beyond fluidity, graphics quality is another important gaming experience metric. The Dimensity 9500 brings significant graphics enhancements this year, helping mobile games achieve 3A-level visual effects. Specifically, the Dimensity 9500's ray tracing computing unit performance has doubled. In 3D Mark's latest ray tracing benchmark Solar Bay Extreme, it achieves 119% performance improvement, with engineering machine testing scoring 2,575 points. The Dimensity 9500 leads in supporting 120fps ray tracing effects, breaking through global ray tracing experience limits.

MediaTek announced collaboration with "Dark Zone Breakout" for the industry's first ultra-high framerate 120 fps ray-traced mobile game.

The Dimensity 9500 also leads in supporting console-level Raytracing Pipeline technology, achieving excellent reflection effects in complex scenes through high-efficiency ray tracing computation.

The Dimensity 9500 is first to support console-level Unreal Engine UE 5.5/5.6 MegaLights multi-dynamic light source solutions. When scenes contain numerous dynamic, movable light sources, all can produce realistic area shadows, bringing unprecedented lighting detail and realism without significantly sacrificing performance.

The demonstration showed two identical Dimensity 9500 phones rendering the same multi-dynamic light source scene - the left phone with MegaLights disabled appeared more stuttered while the right phone with MegaLights enabled showed noticeably higher framerates.

Additionally, the Dimensity 9500 supports ultra-high quantity geometric model rendering reaching PC levels, with rendering capability improved dozens of times compared to the previous generation under equivalent computing budgets.

**New Ultra-Performance + Ultra-Efficiency Dual NPU Transforms AI Experience**

AI is undoubtedly the most important technological evolution and application direction in today's smartphone market. IDC's ten major trend insights for China's smartphone market included three AI-related points. AI experience upgrades are paramount on the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 flagship platform. Specifically, the Dimensity 9500 adopts a new ultra-performance NPU 990 + ultra-efficiency NPU dual-architecture design.

The ultra-performance NPU 990 is designed for ultra-strong edge AI experiences, delivering 111% peak performance improvement over the previous generation, with significant advances in large language model summary output capability and multimodal understanding capability, pioneering 4K high-definition text-to-image generation. The NPU 990 also balances excellent efficiency for more sustainable AI experiences, reducing peak performance power consumption by 56% compared to the previous generation.

According to MediaTek, the Dimensity 9500's strong AI performance ranks first on the industry-authoritative ETHZ AI Benchmark mobile SoC leaderboard with a score of 15,015.

Over the past two years, AI phones have made significant progress from concept to practical application implementation, with consumers increasingly accustomed to using various generative AI functions in smartphones. However, current AI phones still commonly face three major pain points: poor large model experience fluidity, AI model resident high energy consumption, and AI model training high memory occupation. These issues cause various experience problems even when using AI capabilities in top flagship phones. These pain points are precisely what the Dimensity 9500's full-system AI architecture aims to address.

First, the Dimensity 9500 introduces Generative AI Engine 2.0, which optimizes the entire chain from AI model loading to response on mobile devices. For model loading, the Dimensity 9500's first support for 4-channel UFS 4.1 memory resolves memory channel bottlenecks, making model loading 40% faster.

For memory capacity bottlenecks, the Dimensity 9500 upgrades memory compression technology, improving hardware memory compression rates. This reduces 4B model memory requirements to below 1.6GB, a 20% reduction compared to the previous generation - a first in the mobile phone industry.

For resolving large model generation and response pain points, the Dimensity 9500 introduces three key technological innovations. First is industry-first support for 1.58Bit model inference framework, delivering 2x faster performance and 60% memory savings, plus upgraded dedicated Transformer hardened circuit design for 2x faster model response speeds.

The second key innovation is industry-first integration of Compute-in-Memory (CIM) ultra-efficiency NPU, providing terminals with real-time resident AI operation capability and 42% power consumption reduction when running lightweight AI models.

Third is end-to-end large model training pipeline optimization. MediaTek discovered that model training requires over twice the memory capacity of model inference because it must handle forward and backward inference calculations while integrating temporary cache calculations. Therefore, the Dimensity 9500 becomes the industry's first to achieve edge-side training memory optimization technology. Collaborating with vivo's edge-side training algorithms, it achieves the industry's first sub-2GB memory usage, saving 80% memory overhead compared to the previous generation.

For specific application implementation, the Dimensity 9500 will continue the Agentic AI five characteristics proposed at MediaTek's March developer conference, partnering with OEM collaborators to further drive comprehensive Agentic AI application implementation.

For example, MediaTek collaborated with vivo to launch the industry's first edge-side beauty function on the Dimensity 9500-powered vivo X300 phone, enabling edge-side user beauty function training while reducing beauty training memory resource consumption to very low levels. MediaTek also deeply integrates with vivo's Blue Heart large model suite, maximizing edge-side performance for language, voice, and image applications through high-performance inference.

MediaTek also collaborates with the OPPO Find X9 series to bring the new Xiaobu screen recognition function, which can understand your screen and thoughts, providing quick and convenient intelligent services. It also upgrades OPPO Find X9's Xiaobu map search capability through system-level integration, achieving one-click voice input and search, improving user search efficiency.

Previous demonstrations showed Dimensity 9500 AI applications on engineering machines, such as edge-side 4K ultra-high-definition image generation supporting DiT architecture large models. Generating a watercolor flamingo image took only about 13 seconds to produce a 4K resolution ultra-high-definition picture.

Another demonstration showed edge-side intelligent summary instant generation functionality with significantly improved output performance. In MediaTek and OPPO's high-speed rail office business scenario collaboration, phone conference content converted to text creates meeting transcripts, then edge-side AI performs meeting content summarization, extracting content at extremely fast speeds while providing action items, with text output speeds exceeding 100 Tokens/s.

**New Ultra-Strong Image Processor Imagiq 1190 Delivers Professional-Grade Imaging Experience**

Beyond these features, imaging capability is also a core experience consumers highly value when purchasing flagship phones. The Dimensity 9500 platform provides comprehensive imaging experience upgrades. First, the Dimensity 9500 features a new ISP image processor Imagiq 1190. Combined with the aforementioned ultra-efficiency NPU and deep coordination with sensor hubs, MediaTek created a professional-grade imaging system for the Dimensity 9500, with comprehensive improvements in image quality algorithms, 4K stabilization, cinematic portraits, and high-specification video recording.

For example, the Dimensity 9500 supports the industry's first 4K/60fps cinematic portrait video recording with ultimate efficiency performance. Through dedicated portrait rendering engines, it achieves cinematic-level depth-of-field bokeh, skin texture lighting, color grading styles, and other industry-first functions.

Moreover, the Dimensity 9500 supports the first 4K 120fps video high-specification stabilization effects. Combined with dual-track stabilization algorithms, it achieves smooth and stable ultra-high-definition, ultra-high-framerate video recording.

Another major Dimensity 9500 imaging upgrade strengthens capture experience, supporting frame-by-frame tracking focus, truly a capture artifact. Through ultra-efficiency NPU implementing independent tracking focus engines, including object tracking engines improving tracking computation speed 5x with approximately 33ms object tracking, plus real-time tracking focus engines improving real-time computation performance 3x with focus latency controlled to 33ms.

Additionally, the Dimensity 9500 achieves DSLR-comparable 200MP high-definition shooting effects. Processing 200MP pixels requires high computing power, but the Dimensity 9500 leverages new Raw domain processing engines for 27% improved computing performance. Combined with ultra-efficiency NPU's 2x AI computation performance improvement, 200MP high-quality photos can truly demonstrate their clarity and detail resolution with one-click output.

**Display Technology and Connectivity Technology Upgrades**

Good photography requires excellent viewing - the final link in the imaging chain is display. The Dimensity 9500 provides important display upgrades. First, it supports Dimensity MiraVision adaptive display technology. In bright outdoor environments, it can automatically adjust contrast, color saturation, and other display effects at the pixel level, making viewing both clearer and more comfortable while fearlessly handling bright heat.

Beyond extremely bright environments, the Dimensity 9500 also excels in extremely dark conditions. It leads the Android camp in supporting 1 nit ultra-dark clear display functionality. Even in unlit rooms at night, phones can provide clear and eye-protective display effects.

Finally, let's examine Dimensity 9500 communication connectivity upgrades. Overall, the Dimensity 9500 platform's wireless connectivity evolution keyword is "AI." MediaTek focuses on combining AI performance with communication technology, using AI to solve various wireless connectivity problems.

For Bluetooth headphone connections, the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 debuts Dimensity Big Ear call technology, achieving intelligent spectrum compensation and clear return transmission, using AI to help Bluetooth headphones penetrate an additional wall.

For unstable signals during phone calls when transitioning between elevators, rooms, and other scenarios, the Dimensity 9500 adds Dimensity multi-network communication technology. When cellular signals become unstable, AI can automatically and seamlessly switch to Wi-Fi signals.

The Dimensity 9500 also supports Wi-Fi speed transmission technology, intelligently selecting Wi-Fi bandwidth and Wi-Fi 7 ultimate speeds for 20% improved transmission speeds and faster backup/sharing.

MediaTek uses AI to help Dimensity 9500 achieve communication energy savings, reducing 10% power consumption in 5G scenarios and 20% in Wi-Fi scenarios. Additionally, the Dimensity 9500 supports Dimensity AI network selection technology, helping select clean networks or base stations in complex multi-person network signal environments like concerts and stadiums.

There's also Dimensity AI positioning technology, intelligently accelerating satellite searches to improve positioning accuracy by 20%.

**Conclusion**

Through the above introduction, everyone should have deeper understanding of the Dimensity 9500's design philosophy and technological innovations across all aspects.

The Dimensity 9500, building on continuous exploration and iteration of previous generations, has entered a mature, comprehensive, and industry-leading new phase. It no longer focuses solely on traditional performance and efficiency concerns - these have become basic Dimensity foundations. From fluidity to gaming, from AI intelligence to ultra-strong imaging, from display to connectivity, the Dimensity 9500 achieves innovation and leadership in virtually every aspect of flagship chips, with AI permeating all experiences throughout.

Facing such a flagship mobile platform chip, our past rallying cry should evolve from simple enthusiasm to "MediaTek YES." With the Dimensity 9500 platform launch, we can expect OEM manufacturers to continuously improve their flagship phone products' functionality and experiences across all aspects based on the Dimensity 9500. In the high-end smartphone market battlefield that every manufacturer must contest, MediaTek will possess greater voice and leadership.