Stefan Mileschin

Lacks in GPU, 5G, imaging, features

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 got a lot of coverage, and the marketing machine is trying to promote this chipset as a premium. Guess what? Dimensity 9000 is not a premium chipset as it suffers from stitched stock Cortex IP, stock Mali GPU, lack of premium phone design wins, and, most importantly, too optimistic SoC clocks. The clocks, especially the mid-cluster, might get the company in trouble due to the high energy drain.

Let me walk through the MediaTek mindset and how things work. There is a big culture of overpromising and under-delivering that we’ve seen in the past. Let’s quickly brush up your memory with Helio cores that at one point introduced three clusters of SoC that failed to materialize in performance in the real world.

The worst part is a significant inconsistency problem with the designs. The company is known for changing its branding (Helio vs. Dimensity now), roadmap, market segment, and other inconsistencies.

In the past, Mediatek made some significant market gains in the mid and especially low-end market with its 4G solutions. That is where they stayed for most of the 4G decade, especially with design wins in China, but they never ended up being called a Premium chipset manufacturer.

First, let’s address the big elephant in the room, the Sports mode specific to benchmarking from 2020 discovered by our friends at Anandtech. MediaTek was known to boost the clock at the expense of battery life, creating winning performance scores and essentially delisting from some prominent platforms, including 3Dmark and PCMark. Wikipedia calls it Benchmark cheating. I would be curious to see if they are still whitelisting to boost their benchmark scores with D9000 as they never came out publicly and are committed to changing their ways.

https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/540...remium-chipset