MediaTek announces Dimensity 8250 SoC for premium mid-range phones

MediaTek is giving its late-2022 Dimensity 8200 chipset a refresh with the ‘new’ Dimensity 8250.

Both chips are built on the same 4nm TSMC process and sport the same CPU configuration: four Cortex-A78 cores (one at 3.1GHz, the others at 3.0GHz) and four Cortex-A55 efficiency cores (at 2.0GHz). The Mali-G610 MC6 GPU is also unchanged.

So, what’s the point of the Dimensity 8250? Specs-wise, it appears to be a straight-up rebrand. But there could be certain reasons for the new moniker. Maybe MediaTek is prepping for a minor revision of the chip with some tweaks we can’t see on the spec sheet. Or perhaps it’s a way to segment the market or target specific phone models.

Regardless, the Dimensity 8250 still looking like a solid mid-range contender. It supports up to 180Hz refresh for Full HD+ displays or at 120Hz for Quad HD+ panels, and phones using the chip can be configured with fast LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage.

The camera capabilities are decent too, with an image signal processor (ISP) that can handle massive sensors up to 320MP and offers features like 14-bit HDR processing and 2x lossless zoom. Plus, it throws in hardware decoding for the increasingly popular AV1 video format – a big deal considering YouTube’s recent shift.

For connectivity, it gets a 5G modem with download speeds up to 4.7Gbps, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.3. The chip also boasts an updated MediaTek APU 580 for AI tasks, optimized for efficiency. See the full technical specifications here.

The news comes just in time for the OPPO Reno12 13 debut scheduled for next week, on May 23rd — which is expected to boast the Dimensity 8250 chipset.