TL;DR
- MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 9500 processor, which is expected to power some flagship Android phones.
- The new chipset has an upgraded CPU with SME2 support, a GPU with major ray tracing upgrades, and plenty more features.
- OPPO and vivo are expected to be the first brands to launch Dimensity 9500 phones in the coming weeks.
Who’s actually expecting hardware accelerated raytracing on a mobile device?
Android based VR headsets will eventually want some level of RT support for games.
Gamers maybe?
It’s still a high end PC GPU feature which doesn’t have to worry about battery life, it’s way too early for this on mobile chips.
You need hardware support 1st before software can take advantage of it. Games may take a few years but it should happen. And when it does this chip will be ready.
I mean you’re not wrong but it’s way too early for that. If devices with high power limits are already struggling, I really do not see the point of wasting die area on a mobile chip for it. When it does happen in a few years, this chip would already be forgotten. The average person doesn’t keep a phone for more than 3 years at most. Plus, at the pace of technological improvement for tech like this which is in its infancy, the leaps would be significant, by the time it becomes mass market, this chip very likely would not even hit the min spec.