MediaTek's mid-range chip Dimensity 8300 has been officially launched today with it being a competitor to the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 launched last week. Dimensity 8300 is a continuation of Dimensity 8200 and uses 4nm technology to produce.
It still comes with eight CPU cores with a 1+3+4 configuration which is 1x CPU Cortex-A715 3.35GHz, 3x CPU Cortex-A715 3GHz and 4x CPU Cortex-A510 2.2GHz. According to MediaTek this provides a 20% increase in CPU performance and 30% power savings compared to the Dimensity 8200.
This flagship mid-range CPU is matched with a Mali-G615 MC6 GPU that promises a performance increase of up to 60% and power savings of up to 55% compared to the previous generation. Finally there is also an APU 780 that can run an artificial intelligence LLM with 10 billion parameters. Image generating AI, virtual assistant and writing assistance can be run by this APU.
The chip also supports WQHD+ screens up to 120Hz, LPDDR5X memory, UFS 4.0 storage and video recording at 4K 60Hz resolution. The Redmi K70e device has been confirmed to use DImensity 8300 with it being launched in the near future.