MediaTek announces Dimensity 1000, SoC with integrated 5G

Mediatek is doing great lately. After partnering with Intel to make 5G modems for PCs news, company is in news again for announcing its new 7nm Dimensity 1000 5G chipset. This chipset comes with an integrated 5G modem, 4 x ARM Cortex-A77 performance cores and the Mali-G77 GPU.

SoC also passed through AnTuTu, a benchmarking tool in which got a combined score of 511,363. On paper it is overall is higher than Snapdragon 855+ equipped devices and Apple’s A13 Bionic iPhones. Phone to first use this chip has not been announced yet but Mediatek revealed the first phones to utilize it should appear in Q1 2020.

 

 

Specification

CPU cores 4x 'big' A77 at up to 2.6GHz, 4x 'small' A55 at up to 2.0GHz

GPU 9-core Mali G77

Modem 5G SA/NSA, NR TDD and FDD, 2CC CA, 4.7Gbps downlink and 2.5Gbps uplink at sub-6 frequencies, fallback for 2G, 3G, 4G (Cat 16 LTE), VoNR

Connectivity Wi-Fi 6 (2x2 MIMO), Bluetooth 5.1

Node 7nm TSMC

Memory 4-channel LPDDR4X, up to 16GB

Display Up to QHD+ 90Hz or Full HD+ 120Hz, DisplayPort support

Camera 5-core ISP; up to 80MP at 24FPS single-camera, or 32MP+16MP dual camera; multi-frame video HDR; up to 4K video at 60fps in H.264/265/VP9/AV1

Misc. 6-core APU for AI workloads (2x big, 3x little, 1x tiny cores), 5G+5G and 5G+4G dual-SIM support, dual-core audio DSP