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The Redmi Turbo 4 is launching early in January as the first phone using MediaTek's newly unveiled Dimensity 8400 SoC. This brings an all big core CPU design to the upper-midrange for the first time, which is quite an exciting development if you ask us.
With that in mind, you may have been wondering just what to expect from this chip in terms of performance. While benchmarks aren't necessarily indicators of good day-to-day performance, they can still help us compare different SoCs, and today the Dimensit
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