MediaTek Dimensity 9500 SoC Appeared on the Geekbench OpenCL listing revealing Mali-G1-Ultra MC12 GPU
MediaTek Dimensity 9500 has appeared on the Geekbench OpenCL benchmark for the first time, following earlier rumors. The listing confirms that it remains an octa-core processor featuring a 1+3+4 architecture, with cores labeled as 1 x Travis, 3 x Alto, and 4 x Gelas.
Notably, this leak reveals the presence of a 3.23GHz Cortex-X930 prime core for the first time, accompanied by three performance cores clocked at 3.03GHz and four efficiency cores at 2.23GHz. According to leaker Digital Chat Station, these frequencies are from an early test unit and could change in the final version.
The benchmark also shows that the SoC will incorporate a new Mali-G1-Ultra MC12 GPU. The test device was equipped with 16GB of RAM and running Android 16.
Previous leaks have suggested that the Dimensity 9500 will use the Immortalis-Drage GPU, which introduces a new microarchitecture aimed at enhancing ray tracing performance while reducing power consumption. It's expected to score over 3,900 in Geekbench 6 single-core tests and more than 11,000 in multi-core benchmarks.
Additional expected features include 16MB of L3 cache, 10MB system-level cache (SLC), an upgraded NPU 9.0 capable of delivering up to 100 TOPS of AI performance, support for 10,667Mbps LPDDR5X RAM, and quad-channel UFS 4.1 storage.
The MediaTek Dimensity 9500 is likely to launch in early September 2025, ahead of the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, which is scheduled for release on September 23rd. As usual, OPPO and vivo are expected to be among the first to adopt the chipset in their upcoming flagship smartphones.
