MediaTek Releases Dimensity 1100 And Dimensity 1200 Chipsets

Chipset Dimensity 1100 & Dimensity 1200 (MediaTek)

JAKARTA - MediaTek today (January 21) announced not one but two Dimensity 5G chipsets, namely the Dimensity 1100 and Dimensity 1200.This is the successor to the Dimensity 1000+ chipsets released last year.

Both feature an updated ARM Cortex-A78 core and are built on TSMC's newer 6nm process.

In its press release, MediaTek said that the chipset has updated AI (Artificial Intelligence) capabilities, camera, connectivity and GPU. In addition, the Dimensity 1200 speed can be increased up to 3GHz.

While the general features of the two chipsets are still there. These include MediaTek APU 3.0 for AI computing with 10% more performance on the Dimensity 1200, support for MediaTek HyperEngine 3.0 technology, 5G calling and data concurrency, multi-touch enhancements, ray tracing in games and AR applications, and super hotspot power savings.

Both the Dimensity 1100 and 1200 have a 5G modem integrated in them. They also have their own company-specific UltraSave technology to overcome the huge 5G power constraints.

Additionally, the chipset supports SA / NSA 5G (sub-6GHz, 5G + 5G Dual-SIM), 2CC carrier aggregation across frequency-sharing duplex (FDD) and time-split duplex (TDD), dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS).

It's worth noting that the Dimensity 1200 chipset is TÜV Rheinland certified for its 5G performance covering 72 real-world scenarios. Other connectivity features include the latest Wi-Fi 6, GNSS L1 + L5 (navigation), Bluetooth 5.2.

Turning to the photography side, between the two, MediaTek says that the Dimensity 1200 supports a single camera up to 200MP and a five-core HDR-ISP with 4K HDR video capture support. Meanwhile, the Dimensity 1100 only has single camera support up to 108MP.

Both chipsets have common features like dual 32MP + 16MP camera support. Coupled with AI performance improvements consisting of AI-Panorama Night Shot, Multi-Person Bokeh, Noise reduction, and HDR camera features.

As for the display, both support displays up to QHD at a refresh rate of 90Hz. However, specifically for Full HD + displays, the D1200 can support up to 168Hz while the D1100 is limited to a 144Hz refresh rate.

For video playback, both support HDR10 +, AV1 encoding with hardware acceleration. For audio there is wireless stereo audio with very low latency, LC3 encoding for high quality audio, low latency streaming for TWS (power efficiency) earbuds.

MediaTek said that OEMs such as Xiaomi, Vivo, OPPO and Realme, showed support for using the new chipset to their devices by the end of Q1 2021.

Among other things, Redmi and Realme have confirmed that devices running the Dimensity 1200 chipset will soon enter the market and the Redmi device is expected to be the company's first gaming phone while Realme can include it in the Realme X9 Pro.