Xiaomi 17 and 15T series, SD 8 Elite Gen 5, Dimensity 9500 official, Week 39 in review

"MediaTek and Qualcomm both unveiled their next-gen mobile chipsets this week - the Dimensity 9500 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The Snapdragon brings a 20% improvement in CPU performance with a 35% improvement in efficiency. On the GPU side, expect 23% improved performance, 20% better power efficiency, and 25% improved Ray Tracing. The chipset has a 37% faster Hexagon NPU and upgraded Qualcomm Sensing Hub, which together unlock agentic AI assistants for personalized experiences."

"The Dimensity 9500 uses new generation Arm CPU cores with an 'All Big Core' design. It uses a single Arm C1-Ultra core clocked at 4.21GHz, three C1-Premium cores, and four C1-Pro cores for an octa-core design. Let's talk numbers - single-core performance is up by 32%, multi-core is 17% better. The ultra core is impressively 55% more efficient at peak performance, while CPU efficiency is 30% better than on the Dimensity 9400."

"Xiaomi unveiled three phones in the 17 series, and two more under the 15T moniker. That's not counting the Xiaomi Pad 8, Pad 8 Pro, and Pad Mini. All three Xiaomi 17 units use the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip. The Xiaomi 17 has a 6.3-inch 120Hz LTPO AMOLED display, a triple camera - 23mm f/1.7, 60mm f/2.0, and 17mm f/2.4 - and a 7,000mAh battery with 100W charging."

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 delivers a 20% CPU performance increase and 35% CPU efficiency gain, plus 23% GPU performance improvement, 20% better GPU power efficiency, and 25% improved ray tracing. The chipset includes a 37% faster Hexagon NPU and an upgraded Qualcomm Sensing Hub that enable agentic AI assistants for personalized experiences. MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 adopts an All Big Core design with a 4.21GHz Arm C1-Ultra plus three C1-Premium and four C1-Pro cores, yielding single-core +32%, multi-core +17%, ultra core 55% peak-efficiency improvement, and CPU efficiency +30%. Graphics and NPU performance are also notably improved, and multiple flagship phones are launching with these new SoCs.

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