The high-end Vivo advantages.
We touched on this question in our full review and will answer it again here, read on.
The high-end Dimensity 9300 is manufactured on TSMC’s third-generation 4nm+ process, and Mediatek says it offers a 40% improvement in peak performance over last year’s Dimensity 9200 while using 33% less power. Its CPU has four Cortex-X4 cores (one clocked at up to 3.25 GHz and three at up to 2.85 GHz) and four Cortex-A720 units (up to 2.0 GHz).
To put that into perspective, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 3.3 GHz Cortex-X4, 5 x 3.2 GHz Cortex-A720, and 2 x 2.3 GHz Cortex-A520.
Returning to Dimensity, its GPU is the Immortalis-G720 MC12 and this is one core more than the G715 MC11 in the Dimensity 9200 and two more than the G715 MC10 in the Pixel 8’s Tensor G3.
Now, how well does the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 handle its large, powerful cores? One early test suggested a 54% drop after 15 minutes in a CPU throttling test. We are happy to report that these numbers are not accurate in our results.
Our review unit’s performance gradually dropped over the first 15 minutes of the test to around 80 percent, where it remained for a full 40 minutes, and then dropped further, eventually dropping to just 73 percent of its initial power. A fairly stable ride and in some ways better than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 inside the iQOO 12: review and test.
GPU behavior was similar to that of the iQOO, and the X100 Pro returned a stability score of 55 percent in 3DMark compared to 53 percent for the Snapdragon-powered phone.
CPU throttling test • 3DMark Wild Life stress test
Overall, we would say that at least in the X100 Pro implementation, the Dimensity 9300 is perfectly stable and quite robust at the same time. The phone did get warm during the benchmarking process, but not to an excessive degree. So pretty solid results thanks to the new Mediatek chip.
On performance. In GeekBench, the .
In the multi-core test the positions are reversed and the gap grows to almost 6% in favor of the vivo powered by Dimensity. Compared to the Dimensity 9200+, represented here by the Xiaomi 13T Pro, the new chipset scores more than 50% higher, which is at least a little impressive.
In the Antutu 10, there is virtually no difference between the vivo 9200+ of the Xiaomi 13T Pro. The Tensor G3 of the Pixel 8 Pro achieved just over half the score of the Dimensity 9300.
In GFXBench, the vivo consistently outperforms the iQOO, albeit by a small margin. The Dimensity 9300 also scores 20 to 30 percent higher than last year’s Snapdragons.
It’s a little less black and white in 3DMark, where the Solar Bay ray tracing test gives the Dimensity 9300 a slight edge over the SD 8 Gen 3, it wins by a larger margin (14%) in the Wild Life Extreme test, only for forgiveness in the simplest Wild Life of about 10%.
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