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MediaTek has announced its new 4nm SoC, the Dimensity 8200. This chip follows the Dimensity 9200 which got announced last month. The Dimensity 9200 is a new flagship processor from the company, while the Dimensity 8200 is still plenty powerful, but more oriented towards more affordable high-end phones.
The MediaTek Dimensity 8200 is now official, a powerful 4nm processor
This chip features an octa-core CPU, and it’s made using a 4nm process. It includes four Arm Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2.0GHz. Three Arm Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 3.0GHz are also here. There is also one Arm Cortex-A78 core clocked at 3.1GHz.
The Arm Mali-G610 MC6 GPU is also a part of the package, as is the MediaTek APU 580. This chip supports phones with fullHD+ displays up to 180Hz, and WQHD displays up to 120Hz. It also offers MediaTek Intelligent Display Sync 2.0. On top of that, 4K AV1 video decoding is supported.
Quad-channel LPDDR5 RAM is supported here, as is UFS 3.1 flash storage. When it comes to its ISP, we’re looking at the MediaTek Imagiq 785, a 14-bit HDR ISP. It supports up to 320MP primary camera, and triple camera setups with dual exposure HDR videography. 4K video recording at 60 FPS is supported as well.
There is a 3GPP Release 16 5G modem included here. The chip also supports 3CC Carrier Aggregation (200MHz) 5G sub-6GHz. Bluetooth 5.3 is supported too, as is Wi-Fi 6E 2×2.
Dimensity 8200-powered smartphones will start launching this month
MediaTek says that smartphones with this SoC are expected to start rolling out this month, to global markets. The company did not mention what OEMs will release them, though, even though it surely partnered up with a bunch of them.
This chip does look quite compelling on paper, and we’ll probably see quite a few phones featuring it. It’s not quite up there with the Dimensity 9200, but it’s not meant to be.
