MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Officially Introduced, Here Are Its Features

MediaTek has officially introduced the Dimensity 8400, the successor to last year’s Dimensity 8300. Designed for the upper mid-range smartphone market, this new chipset offers significant performance gains and improved energy efficiency. It aims to deliver a flagship-level experience at a more affordable price.

Xiaomi has announced that Redmi Turbo 4 will be the first smartphone of 2025 to come with Dimensity 8400 Ultra.

As for the Dimensity 8400, the chipset with all-major core design is built on the latest Arm Cortex-A725 cores and clocked at 3.25 GHz, delivering a 10% increase in single-core performance while simultaneously reducing power consumption by a significant 35%.

On the graphics front, the Arm Mali-G720 GPU delivers a 24% increase in peak performance and a 42% reduction in power consumption, providing an outstanding gaming experience. The innovative StarSpeed ​​engine is able to dynamically optimize resource allocation.

The chipset also features the powerful MediaTek NPU 880, which boosts AI performance for tasks like language model processing and rendering. Powered by the Dimensity AI engine, this chipset supports complex on-device models that enable faster and higher quality content creation, including features like large language models and Stable Diffusion 1.5.

For imaging, the chipset comes with the MediaTek Imagiq 1080 ISP display processor and a dedicated QPD zoom hardware engine. This powerful combination enables focusing to the entire depth of field, resulting in more precise and faster photography.