Next year’s flagship chipsets have all been revealed: Apple and Google have already launched theirs (Apple A17 with iPhone 15 Pro and Tensor G3 with Pixel 8s), Samsung detailed the Exynos 2400, Qualcomm revealed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and this week MediaTek brought its Dimensity 9300.
The Dimensity is this year’s big surprise: can a CPU with all big cores succeed? Four Cortex-X4s and four A720s represent a lot of power in more ways than one. But it’s too early to talk about benchmarks and we have yet to see most of the phones that will be equipped with the 9300 and other chipsets.
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So this week we want to ask another question: are you interested? Mid-range chipsets are so good these days that some of you might balk at the idea of paying extra for a flagship chip. There are also slightly older high-end options like the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and Dimensity 9200, which are still being used for new phones in 2023.
There are some legitimate reasons to want the latest and greatest silicon. Efficiency is still evolving rapidly (just compare the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and the 8+ Gen 1). Plus, the latest camera advancements, whether it’s a faster signal processor or a new NPU for artificial intelligence, come first at the high end.
Artificial intelligence is also finding new use cases—you’ve probably at least tried ChatGPT (Microsoft and Google are working to integrate the functionality into their search engines), but these could power digital assistants on devices as well. And image-generating templates allow people to tap into their creative side without learning to draw.
By next year, all flagship chipsets will have hardware-accelerated ray tracing GPUs. Apple and Google have joined the club with the new A17 and Tensor G3 respectively, Qualcomm, MediaTek and Samsung are already entering the second generation.
Of course, not all of you will be interested in ray tracing. This is mostly for gaming phones, right? Most of you probably care about camera quality, but if there’s enough processing power for that, do you care that the Tensor G3 CPU is slower than the Dimensity 9300 CPU?
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