The spotlight is now on MediaTek’s next big flagship chip, the Dimensity 9500, which has just surfaced on Geekbench inside the upcoming vivo X300 series smartphone (model V2502DA). Previously spotted on the 3C certification database as a satellite communication variant with 90W fast charging, this device is now making headlines for its benchmark numbers.
According to Geekbench, the vivo X300 equipped with the Dimensity 9500 scored 3502 in single-core and 10,393 in multi-core, paired with 16GB RAM. For comparison, the Xiaomi 17 series, debuting Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition, recorded 3812 single-core and 11,993 multi-core. Interestingly, the Dimensity 9500’s multi-core score even rivals Apple’s A19 Pro (single-core over 4000, multi-core above 11,000). Samsung’s Exynos 2600, tested in late August, showed 3309 single-core and 11,256 multi-core, placing it slightly behind in single-thread but competitive overall.
Its GPU, the new Mali-G1 Ultra MC12, introduces a fresh microarchitecture delivering 40% higher energy efficiency and 40% better mobile ray tracing performance, with frame rates expected to surpass 100FPS.
On the memory side, it boasts a 16MB L3 cache + 10MB SLC, LPDDR5x 10667Mbps support, 4-lane UFS 4.1, plus SME instruction set compatibility. Its NPU 9.0 is projected to reach a staggering 100 TOPS.
Crucially, the Dimensity 9500 will debut exclusively with vivo X300 series, making it the first smartphone lineup to launch with this chipset. Just last week, vivo product manager Han Boxiao teased that the vivo X300 Pro satellite version shattered records by surpassing 4 million points on AnTuTu a historic milestone.
MediaTek Dimensity 9500 features a 1+3+4 CPU cluster:
- 1×4.21GHz Travis (Arm X9 super core)
- 3×3.50GHz Alto (Arm X9 super cores)
- 4×2.7GHz Gelas (Arm A7 large cores)
