MediaTek’s new Dimensity 9400+ chipset focuses on AI performance and gaming

MediaTek has just announced an upgraded version of its popular Dimensity 9400 chip, the Dimensity 9400+. The “plus” in the name isn’t just for flavor, as the Taiwanese company has added quite a few improvements over its previous flagship chip.

First off, the reason Dimensity 9400+ exists and we’re not already talking about Dimensity 9500 (or whatever its name) is that MediaTek really wanted to add AI support to its flagship chipset.

MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ supports a wide range of the largest LLMs (Large Language Models) such as Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), Multi-Head Latent Attention (MKA), Multi-Token Prediction (MTP). The new chip also supports FP8 inferencing with faster reasoning speeds.

Equipped with the MediaTek NPU 890, the new chip promises 20 percent faster agentic AI performance with Speculative Decoding+ (SpD+). Additionally, the Dimensity 9400+ features Deepseek-R1-Distill model support with on-device processing.



Just like the Dimensity 9400, the upgraded version features an All Big Core design, integrating one Arm Cortex-X925 core operating up to 3.73 GHz, combined with 3x Cortex-X4 and 4x Cortex-A720 cores. In comparison, Dimensity 9400’s Arm Cortex-X925 core is clocked at 3.62 GHz. The rest of the configuration is the same.

The same 12-core Arm Immortalis-G925 graphics processing unit (GPU) will enhance your gaming visual experiences. What the Dimensity 9400+ brings to the table is a new frame rate converter 2.0+ (MFRC 2.0+), which was developed after receiving feedback from game developers.

According to MediaTek, the new frame rate converter has doubled the effective FPS (frames-per-second) and enhanced power efficiency by up to 40 percent when it’s utilized.