The first MediaTek Dimensity 9200 test on AnTuTu shows an impressive generational improvement

Around this time last year a Dimensity-powered phone posted the first 1 million-point result on AnTuTu. That was the then new Dimensity 9000 chip and now its successor is on the horizon, which is tentatively known as the Dimensity 9200.

AnTuTu score from the Dimensity 9200

With a total score of 1.26 million, the new chip promises a fairly impressive generation improvement of 26%. MediaTek announced a mid-season update to the older chip, the Dimensity 9000+, which promised a 5% CPU and 10% GPU performance boost. In practice, the Plus chip scores 1.13 million points, so even compared to that the new results look pretty good.

But it also seems a bit odd: the point breakdown shows that the CPU score is on par with what the 9000 chips get. And if you look at the temperature graph, it looks like this chipset hasn’t been pushed very hard (or this is a development board with good cooling).

According to Digital chat station (who shared this screenshot), the Dimensity 9200 features a Cortex-X3 CPU core, compared to an X2, so we would have expected a higher CPU score. Again, we don’t know what kind of device the benchmark ran, so it’s too early to draw any conclusions.

However, the GPU score lives up to expectations. At 550K it’s well above what the 9000+ chip achieves in devices like the Asus ROG Phone 6D Ultimate (the best performing phone as of September), which comes in at around 430K.

DCS claims that MediaTek uses ARM’s latest Immortalis-G715, its most powerful GPU, but also the first that has hardware support for ray tracing. The G715 promises a 15% performance increase in graphics rendering over the G710 used in the old chip (and a 300% increase when ray tracing is involved).

We don’t know what type of device the benchmark ran or what settings were used. But this result suggests that the Dimensity 9200 will be a worthy successor to the 9000 (+), which has been used on some flagships as an alternative to the Snapdragon 8 (+) Gen 1.

We haven’t heard anything concrete, but the Dimensity 9200 could be officially unveiled in the coming weeks: the 9000 was announced in mid-November. Perhaps the launch will be intentionally scheduled before or after Qualcomm’s announcement.