MediaTek’s Dimensity 7000 is coming, but we can already observe it “up close” thanks to the latest rumors: it will be more powerful than you think
An important leak has involved MediaTek and its upcoming mid-range chip Dimensity 7000. The rumors in fact in the last hours have detected all the fundamental specifications, so the type of the employed productive process, the architecture and the maximum frequency of the single cores.
In other words, it remains very little to discover on the account of the Dimensity 7000, a chip that will be called to finalize the full return among the “greats” of the world market. The Taiwanese company seems more determined than ever to attack the technical leadership that right now seems to be in the hands of Qualcomm, even if the American manufacturer seems to have lost something compared to past years. So MediaTek has started its chase, first with the high-end chip Dimensity 9000 that is already official but will not arrive before the beginning of 2022, and in a few days will give new impetus to the gallop with the mid-range chip Dimensity 7000.
Dimensity 7000 as the top of the range 2021
To read the information obtained and relaunched by Digital Chat Station on Weibo it’s hard to see in the Dimensity 7000 a mid-range chip. The specifications finished outside the production chain hint at a chip not too far from the Dimensity 9000 announced not even 15 days ago.
First of all for the production process. The best chip of MediaTek is produced with 4 nanometer technology, the Dimensity 7000, according to the most recent rumors, will be made at 5 nanometers. A minimal difference, which however puts the latter on the same level as the best chips of 2021.
At the moment in fact only four chips in the world benefit from the 5 nanometer production process: Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, Samsung Exynos 2100, HiSilicon Kirin 9000 and Apple A15 Bionic, all of which are very high-end products. The Dimensity 7000 will therefore be made with the same “refinement”, which will allow to reach a best-in-class compromise between performance and power management.
The Dimensity 7000 will be very powerful
That the definition of mid-range chip will be tight to the Dimensity 7000 suggests not only the production process, but also the architecture used by MediaTek and the maximum frequencies achievable by the various cores.
The Taiwanese chip, always according to Digital Chat Station, will be composed of eight cores in total, four of which will be Cortex-A78 to which will be entrusted the most important workloads, and that will have a clock frequency of 2.75 GHz, while the remaining four cores will be Cortex-A55 at 2 GHz that will be called to process all those operations that do not require too much power and on which, therefore, you can save energy.
Despite the CPU, on the GPU side MediaTek’s Dimensity 7000 will have the Mali-G510 MC6, a recent graphics card that Arm presented just before the summer, when it defined it as “perfect to combine performance and efficiency”.
On the debut of Dimensity 7000 at present it is difficult to express, but there is to put in the account a launch later than that of the Dimensity 9000, which as mentioned is already official but will arrive on the market in the first quarter of 2022.