It requires a certain panache to start an industry-wide trend, and MediaTek did just that when it jettisoned efficiency cores in its Dimensity 9300 chip, which was announced back in November 2023.

Now, after 2 years, the Dimensity 9500 is seemingly on par with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in certain areas and a close second in others, showing the overall futility of efficiency cores in the process, a lesson that could have greatly benefitted Samsung Exynos 2600.

How MediaTek's Dimensity chip started a broader trend in 2023

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 3 , which came out in October 2023, was its last flagship chip that sported efficiency cores, with its processor's architecture structured as follows:

1 ARM Cortex-X4 core

3 ARM Cortex-A720 cores

2 ARM Cortex-A720 cores

2

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