With the new Dimensity 1080, 200MP cameras come in the mid-range

The new MediaTek Dimensity 1080 largely incorporates the characteristics of the Dimensity 920however raising the bar regarding the maximum power and above all the support a photographic sensors more performing.

• TSMC 6nm N6 production node
• CPU: octa core: 2x ARM Cortex-A78 cores clocked up to 2.6GHz + 6x ARM Cortex-A55 cores clocked up to 2GHz
• GPU: ARM Mali G68
• TO THE: Mediatek APU (AI Processing Unit) of the third generation
• Memory: LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage
• ISP Imagiq:
  • camera: four cameras simultaneously and sensors up to 200 MP and Zero Shutter Lag
  • video: 4K HDR encoding
• Connectivity: dual SIM 5G SA / NSA (sub-6GHz), Wi-Fi 6 MIMO 2×2, Bluetooth 5.2

As you can see, the features quite faithfully mirror the Dimensity 920.

The differences concern the maximum clock of the cores A78which in the predecessor came to 2.5 GHzand the maximum resolution of the camera, which was previously of 108 MP.

Everything else is unchanged, like the video encodingthe specific features for the game (HyperEngine 3.0 like 920), the connectivity And APU.

A half step forward, then, but nothing overwhelming in a market that is now aiming for conservativeness. While celebrating its launch, CH ChenDeputy Director General of MediaTek’s Wireless Communications Business Unit, remarks as the new chipset

further improves many of the features that made its predecessor exceptional, including processing power, camera and video quality, and time-to-market for manufacturers

The manager is in fact convinced that the strength of Dimensity 1080 it’s not alone in its full suite of advanced features that defy expectations about what a 5G smartphone can do, but also in the fact that, by sharing much hardware he was born in software of the Dimensity 920it will be easier for OEMs to adopt it.

So accelerate the time-to-market.

Exactly for this reason, MediaTek states that we can expect the first smartphones equipped with the new 5G chipset already in fourth quarter of 2022 and, while we will not see distortions of the general experience, we are curious to see if anyone will take advantage of the opportunity to use 200 MP photo sensors.