We're getting a slew of new iPads this year after a lull in 2023, but Samsung has some premium tablets of its own in the works – and a new specs leak may have revealed the most important component of the upcoming Galaxy Tab S10 series.
According to information expert @UniverseIce, all tablets in the 2024 range will feature a MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus chip. This is said to be a slight upgrade from the standard Dimensity 9300 CPU, which was announced in May.
It's somewhat surprising because almost all previous Galaxy Tab tablets were powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon silicon, the only exception being the original Galaxy Tab S from 2014, which had one of Samsung's Exynos processors inside.
As you'll see in our Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra review, the 2023 tablets come with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset inside. While the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 appears in the Galaxy S24 series in some regions, Samsung has apparently decided not to include it in its tablets, likely to keep costs down.
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The entire Galaxy Tab S10 series has been confirmed to use the MediaTek Dimensity 9300+ chip.July 18, 2024
While Qualcomm chips are widely considered to outperform MediaTek and Exynos in terms of raw performance most of the time, according to the source of this leak, the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus is still a “very good device.”
In web benchmarks, the Mediatek chip actually comes out slightly ahead in certain categories, though synthetic benchmarks don't always tell the full story when it comes to real-world performance inside real devices.
This raises the eternal question (often asked in relation to Apple's more expensive iPads): how much power does a tablet really need? The Galaxy Tab S10 series may drop the Snapdragon, but they will still be very fast tablets.
As for when we might see these devices (most likely the Tab S10, Tab S10 Plus, and Tab S10 Ultra), they should appear soon, considering their predecessors were unveiled in August 2023. Stay tuned.
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