MediaTek launches "flagship-level" Dimensity 9400e chip, to debut on the global realme GT 7

MediaTek today launched its newest high-end chipset with flagship-level capabilities called Dimensity 9400e.

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A new high-end chip for sub-premium smartphones

This chip joins Dimensity 9400 and Dimensity 9400+. But unlike its 3nm siblings, the Dimensity 9400e is built on TSMC's 4nm process and is designed to be used on sub-premium smartphones.

According to the company, this chip can deliver an "exceptional performance and energy efficiency for outstanding artificial intelligence, connectivity, imaging, and gaming for users."

The chip uses an "All Big Core" CPU architecture, which includes 4x Cortex-A720 big cores clocked at 2.0GHz and 4x Cortex-X5 super cores with up to 3.4GHz clock speed. It is paired with a 12-core Immortalis-G720 GPU for "powerful" graphics rendering capabilities, as well as support for hardware-level mobile ray tracing technology to provide "console-level" global illumination effects to significantly enhance gaming immersion. 

Moreover, the chip comes with MediaTek HyperEngine technology with support for MediaTek Adaptive Gaming Technology (MAGT 2.0) to enable real-time performance scheduling between the chipset and gaming applications for excellent high-frame-rate stability and low power consumption.

The new chip also has the MediaTek Frame Rate Converter (MFRC 2.0+), which can reduce power consumption by up to 40 percent when enabled.

Furthermore, the chip supports the latest MediaTek NeuroPilot SDK, designed to enable generative AI applications and services to deliver fast, personalized, and secure experiences.

It also boasts enhanced inference decoding technology (SpD+), accelerating the computational efficiency of large language models and on-device operation of DeepSeek-R1-Distill (Qwen1.5B/Llama7B/Llama8B) models, Gemini Nano with Multimodality, LLaVA-1.5 7B, and more. 

Dimensity 9400e also has a flagship 18-bit RAW ISP with support for semantic segmentation video engines capable of 16-layer image semantic segmentation and support for high-dynamic noise reduction for recordings with three microphones.

MediaTek claims that the chip can also deliver professional-grade video recording effects for smartphone photography enthusiasts. and supports high-dynamic noise reduction for recordings with three microphones. 

Connectivity-wise, the chip also supports Bluetooth connection range between phones up to 5 km within line of sight, sub-6GHz four-carrier aggregation (4CC-CA) with theoretical peak network download speeds of up to 7 Gbps, WiFi 7 tri-band concurrency (5 data streams) with theoretical peak transmission speeds of up to 7.3 Gbps, MediaTek 5G UltraSave 3.0 power-saving technology, and multi-mode dual-SIM dual-active functionality.

With the launch of the MediaTek Dimensity 9400e, we are expanding our family of leading mobile platforms to ensure both device makers and users can select from a larger range of flagship experiences than ever before, said Dr. Yenchi Lee, General Manager of MediaTek's Wireless Communications Business Unit. We remain committed to exceeding expectations in top-tier performance, energy efficiency, and AI capabilities by combining powerful hardware with advanced MediaTek-driven technologies.

MediaTek Dimensity 9400e key features

• Built on TSMC's 4nm process
• 4x up to 2.0GHz Cortex-A720 big cores
• 4x up to 3.4GHz Cortex-X5 super cores
• 12-core Immortalis-G720 GPU
• MediaTek HyperEngine
• MediaTek NeuroPilot SDK
• 18-bit RAW ISP
• Sub-6GHz four-carrier aggregation (4CC-CA)
• WiFi 7 tri-band

The global realme GT 7 will use the new MTK Dimensity 9400e chip

realme Global's X (formerly Twitter) account revealed that the first smartphone to use the new MediaTek Dimensity 9400e is the upcoming global realme GT 7 Series, which will launch on May 27, 2025, in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Source: realme