MediaTek takes on Qualcomm with its latest flagship mobile processor

The company claims much improved performance and power consumption over last year's Dimensity 9200, and performance on par with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor in some key benchmarks. That makes three flagship mobile system-on-chips launched in the last month (including Google's Tensor G3), showing some healthy competition in the high-end mobile processor space. The Dimensity 9300 has what MediaTek calls an "all-big core architecture" oriented toward performance, with four ultra-large cores and four big cores, making eight altogether. That compares to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which comes with a single ultra-large Cortex-X4 core, along with 5 big Cortex-A720 cores and 2 smaller Cortex-A520 cores to balance energy savings and performance. With all that, it delivers 15 percent more performance than the Dimensity 9200 at the same power level, or 33 percent power draw at the same performance.