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MediaTek Dimensity 9200: Arm Immortalis and Adreno 740 should beat Apple GPU

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Next month, both MediaTek and Qualcomm are expected to present the next generation flagship SoC for use in smartphones. The Dimensity 9200 is expected to feature the new Arm Immortalis G715 GPU with ray tracing, which is said to be faster than Apple's GPU in the A16 Bionic. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is also supposed to work faster.

The Leaker Ice Universe on Twitter provides information about the speculated GPU performance of the MediaTek Dimensity 9200, which includes two screenshots from the GFXBench presented, which should provide a first impression of the performance of the Immortalis-G715.

Immortalis-G715 comes with Ray Tracing Unit

Arm presented the Immortalis G715 at the Tech Day in June and thus included a mobile GPU designed for hardware ray tracing in its portfolio for the first time, after the CXT GPU from Imagination Technologies and the Xclipse 920 GPU based on AMD RDNA 2 this Feature also supported in hardware. Immortalis-G715 as well as the smaller expansion stages Mali-G715 and Mali-G615 presented in parallel all use the fourth generation of the Valhall architecture, only in the Immortalis there is a dedicated Ray Tracing Unit (RTU) in each inner core of a shader core. . All details can be found in the related article from the end of June.

Immortalis-G715 (Image: Arm)

Benchmark does not use raytracing

For the MediaTek Dimensity, an expansion stage called “MC11” of the Immortalis-G715 is apparently planned, as long as the screenshots from the benchmark can be trusted. This would put MediaTek in the lower range of the 10 to 16 supported shader cores. The images each show a run in GFXBench Manhattan 3.0 and 3.1 in the off-screen resolution of 1080p. However, neither of the two benchmarks makes use of the RTU of the new GPU, since ray tracing is only supported using Vulkan by Arm and the two benchmarks, which are now quite old, still rely on the APIs OpenGL ES 3.0 and 3.1.

18 percent ahead of Apple

ComputerBase has included the alleged results in its in-house diagrams for comparison with numerous well-known SoCs. If the information turns out to be correct, the Immortalis-G715 MC11 in the Dimensity 9200 would work around 18 percent faster than the GPU of the Apple A16 Bionic, at least in these two benchmarks. It is not yet possible to make a statement about performance when using modern APIs such as Vulkan vs. Metal or when measuring in resolutions higher than 1080p, such as those used for GFXBench Aztec Ruins or 3DMark.

GFXBench Offscreen

GFXBench Offscreen – Manhattan 1080p (Metal /OpenGL ES 3.1)

Unit: frames per second (FPS) GFXBench Offscreen – Manhattan 1080p (OpenGL ES 3.0)

Unit: frames per second (FPS)

Adreno 740 is said to be equal to Immortalis

Qualcomm will most likely be the successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with Adreno 740 GPU at the Snapdragon Tech Summit from November 15th to 17th present the current Adreno 730 in the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. The SoC developer relies on Arm's IP with small adjustments to the CPU, but has been developing its own graphics units for many years. Adreno is an anagram of Radeon and has its origins in the Imageon chipsets for the mobile segment, which ATI (later AMD) sold to Qualcomm in 2009.

For the Adreno 740 is not yet able to provide Ice Universe with any performance data, but the performance is said to be equivalent to the Dimensity 9200. According to this, in the coming year, when the first devices with the new chips are available, both SoC developers would at least temporarily beat the A16 Bionic in these specific disciplines – until Apple does it again in the fall.

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