MediaTek announced the Dimensity 1000 5G flagship processor today. This is its first flagship processor since the failure of the 2017 Helio X30. This new chip will slug it out with other flagship processors such as the Kirin 990 5G, Exynos 990 and Snapdragon 865 processors.
Shortly after the announcement, an AnTuTu benchmark result of the new chipset surfaced on the web and its score blows the competition out of the water. The result was posted on Weibo by a user that goes by the name Hilarious Digital.
The benchmark result shows the unknown device powered by the new MediaTek chip scored a total of 511,683 points on the benchmark app. When compared to AnTuTu’s list of the top-performing devices for October 2019, no phone comes close. The Snapdragon 855 Plus-powered Vivo NEX 3 5G which tops the list has a score of 482,917. The newly announced Honor V30 Pro 5G’s AnTuTu score of 476,480 also doesn’t come close. The Red Magic 3S does come pretty close with its score of 510,496.
The breakdown of the score shows a CPU score of 161266, a GPU score of 196097, and a memory score of 84463.
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The test device with the chipset benchmarked is currently unknown but there are speculations it may be the Redmi K30 Pro 5G. No, not the Redmi K30 5G. The K30 5G scheduled for launch next month will have Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 735 5G chipset but the Pro variant which is a flagship phone may be the one to debut with MediaTek’s new processor.
It makes sense this way as Redmi can have a flagship phone available by the beginning of the year rather than waiting for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 processor which likely won’t be available until late February to early March for the early adopters. The Snapdragon 865 will also likely have supply issues since a lot of manufacturers are lined up to use it.
If the Redmi K30 Pro 5G launches in January, buyers not interested in waiting for the Snapdragon 865-powered phones can pick up the Redmi flagship.
Redmi General Manager, Lu Weibing, made a post on Weibo after the processor was announced congratulating MediaTek. The post also mentioned that both companies will work together on 5G phones. The last part of the post says “Redmi 2020, 5G pioneer!”. We want to believe this is a hint that the Redmi phone with the Dimensity 1000 processor arrives next year and it will be the first device powered by it.
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