Earlier this week, MediaTek announced its latest flagship chipset – the Dimensity 9600 Pro and it turns out that’s not the only new SoC from the maker. The Dimensity 9600M is an upcoming chip that’s bringing some software and AI features from the 9600 Pro to a broader segment of flagship phones.
From a hardware perspective, the 9600M is essentially a repackaged Dimensity 9500, fabbed on TSMC’s 3nm N3P process with identical components. It gets the same all-large-core CPU with a max frequency of 4.21GHz on the C1-Ultra core. The same applies to the Arm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12 GPU and the APU 990 NPU, which are unchanged.
Specification
Dimensity 9600M
Node
3nm
CPU prime
1x Arm C1-Ultra (2MB L2 cache)
CPU middle
3x Arm C1-Premium (1MB L2 cache)
CPU small
4x Arm C1-Pro (512KB L2 cache)
L3 cache
16MB
SLC
10MB
RAM
LPDDR5X 10667
Storage
UFS 4.1 (4-lane)
GPU
Arm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12
NPU
MediaTek NPU 990 (Generative AI, Agentic AI)
Modem
3GPP-R17, Sub-6GHz (FR1), 2G-5G multi-mode, 5G-CA, 4G-CA, 5G FDD / TDD, 4G FDD / TDD, TD-SCDMA, WDCDMA, EDGE, GSM
GNSS
GPS L1CA+L5+L1C, BeiDou B1I + B1C + B2a + B2b, Glonass L1OF, Galileo E1 + E5a + E5b, QZSS L1CA + L5, NavIC L5 + L1
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 7 (a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be), Triple Band Triple Concurrency (TBTC), Up to 7.3Gbps
Bluetooth
6.0 with dual Bluetooth engine, Up to 12Mbps
Camera
320MP max sensor supported
Video
8K60 (7680 x 4320), 4K120 with EIS, 4K60 cinematic mode
Display
WQHD+ 180Hz, Tri-port MIPI for Tri-Fold Displays
The 9600M does get MediaTek’s latest Agentic AI Engine and Dimensity Scheduling Engine, making it more capable for AI tasks. The first Dimensity 9600M phones are expected to launch later this quarter, with the vivo X500 and Oppo Find X10 expected to be among the first devices to reach the market.
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