MediaTek Dimensity 900 Announced with Support for 108MP Cameras, 120Hz Refresh Rate

MediaTek has announced the brand new Dimensity 900 chipset today. The new processor is the iteration over the Dimensity 800 released last year, and brings a bunch of improvements over its predecessor.

The Dimensity 900 is built on the 6nm process and is an octa-core processor with 2 ARM Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.4GHz and half dozen ARM Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2GHz. The processor will support camera set ups with up to 108MP sensors, or dual set ups with 20MP + 20MP sensors. Moreover, it comes with a hardware 4K HDR video capture engine for better videos.

The processor will also bring more than features to the mid-range smartphone bracket with back up for 120Hz Full HD+ displays, and MediaTek MiraVision HDR video. Plus, the chipset supports 4K 30FPS video decoding with support for the HEVC, H.264, and VP9 codecs. In terms of encoding videos, the Dimensity 900 supports 4K 30FPS video encoding in HEVC and H.264 codecs.

There's also improvements in 5G connectivity with the MediaTek Dimensity 900. The new processor will allow smartphones to support Dual 5G SIMs, and comes with 5G carrier aggregation, support for SA and NSA 5G networks, and MediaTek is challenge download speeds upwards to 2.7Gbps with the Dimensity 900.

There are other improvements in tow likewise with support for both LPDDR4X and LPDDR5 RAM configurations every bit well as UFS 3.ane back up for faster storage. It likewise comes with WiFi vi, Bluetooth 5.2, and Multi-GNSS L1+L5 bands.

MediaTek did not requite any details regarding when we tin can wait phones with the Dimensity 900 to starting time showing up in the market, but hopefully that will happen sooner rather than later.