78

Points
MediaTek Helio G85

78

Points
Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Helio G85 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G85 vs A17 Pro SoCs by Mediatek and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Helio G85 14
A17 Pro 94
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G85 10
A17 Pro 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G85 57
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G85 27
A17 Pro 93
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G85 A17 Pro
CPU 67123 399992
GPU 61260 620081
Memory 42828 265579
UX 77565 346005
Total score 248776 1631657
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A17 Pro

  • A17 Pro has 89% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (3780 vs 2000 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 39.80% higher GPU clock speed than Helio G85 (1398 vs 1000 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 77.78% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (3200 vs 1800 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 75% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (3 vs 12 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 555.87% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (1,632 K vs 249 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G85.
  • A17 Pro Support 281.80% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (51.2 vs 13.41 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G85 361
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G85 1279
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Helio G85 81.2
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Helio G85 11.9
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Helio G85 24.2
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Helio G85 18.1
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Helio G85 9.26
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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Helio G85 1.55
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Helio G85 413.5
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

100%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache - 16 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 12 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count - 19 Billion
  • TDP 5 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G52 MP2 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Bifrost 2 Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 2 6
  • Shading units 32 128
  • FLOPS 59 Gigaflops 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1800 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.41 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Neural Engine
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 7 -
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

MediaTek Helio G85

CPU
14%
GPU
10%
Memory
21%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
94%
GPU
95%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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