MediaTek releases Dimensity 8400 mobile chip, ushering in the era of advanced smartphone full core computing
2024-12-25
MediaTek releases Dimensity 8400 5G full core intelligent agent AI chip. The Dimensity 8400 inherits many advanced technologies from Dimensity's flagship chip, and is the first to empower the high-end smartphone market with innovative full core architecture design, providing excellent generative AI performance and intelligent AI experience for high-end smartphones.
Dr. Yanji Li, General Manager of MediaTek's Wireless Communication Division, said, "The Dimensity 8400 has a full core architecture design that is in line with Dimensity's flagship chip, with impressive performance and energy efficiency, reinterpreting the breakthrough experience of advanced smartphones. In addition, the outstanding generative AI and intelligent AI capabilities of the Dimensity 8400 will help terminal devices benefit a wider range of people with cutting-edge AI technology
The full core CPU of the Dimensity 8400 includes 8 Arm Cortex-A725 cores with a maximum clock frequency of 3.25GHz, which improves the multi-core performance of the CPU by 41% compared to the previous generation chip. With precise energy efficiency control technology, the multi-core power consumption of the Dimensity 8400 CPU has been reduced by 44% compared to the previous generation, helping to extend the battery life of terminals.
The Dimensity 8400 is equipped with Arm Mali-G720 GPU, which improves GPU peak performance by 24% compared to the previous generation chip and reduces power consumption by 42%. In addition, the Dimensity 8400 also supports advanced frame insertion technology and MediaTek star speed engine, which can bring players smoother and smoother game graphics, as well as a stable frame and low-power gaming experience.
The Dimensity 8400 integrates MediaTek's flagship AI processor NPU 880, which combines a full core CPU with powerful NPU collaborative computing to provide high-speed generative AI task processing capabilities. Supporting mainstream global big language models (LLM), small language models (SLM), and multimodal big models (LMMs), it can provide users with terminal side generative AI innovation experiences such as AI translation, rewriting, contextual intelligent reply, call summarization, multimedia content generation, etc.
The Dimensity 8400 is also equipped with MediaTek Dimensity Agentic AI Engine, which was first introduced in the flagship chip of Dimensity 9400, empowering developers to create refreshing intelligent AI applications and reconstruct traditional AI applications into more advanced intelligent AI applications. The new intelligent AI application can predict user needs and provide personalized intelligent services. MediaTek Dimensity AI intelligent engine will help a wider range of mobile devices accelerate their progress towards AI intelligence.
The Dimensity 8400 is equipped with MediaTek Imagiq 1080 ISP image processor and built-in QPD zoom hardware engine, which can capture more light, make focusing faster and more accurate, and support higher resolution image capture. In addition, the Dimensity 8400 also supports Dimensity's full focus HDR technology, allowing video creators to easily capture stunning works with different focal lengths.
The features of MediaTek Dimensity 8400 also include:
Equipped with 5G-A modem, supporting triple carrier aggregation (3CC-CA), the network downlink transmission rate can reach 5.17Gbps.
• Support network quality monitoring system, which can monitor the connection quality of gaming networks in real time, intelligently select 5G or Wi Fi networks, and achieve higher network speed and lower power consumption.
Supports 144Hz WQHD+display and foldable dual screen devices.