Overview - Helio G85 Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G85 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoCs by Mediatek and Qualcomm respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-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
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G85 10
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G85 57
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G85 27
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G85 Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
CPU 67123 495720
GPU 61260 914123
Memory 42828 361002
UX 77565 338475
Total score 248776 2109320
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Helio G85

  • Helio G85 has 29.87% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (1000 vs 770 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 65% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (3300 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 166.67% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (4800 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 66.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (4 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 747.88% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (2,109 K vs 249 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G85.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Support 474.20% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (77 vs 13.41 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G85 361
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 2329

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G85 1279
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 7526

Image compression

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Helio G85 81.2
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Face detection

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Helio G85 11.9
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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Helio G85 24.2
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Machine learning

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Helio G85 18.1
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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Helio G85 9.26
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

HTML 5

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Helio G85 1.55
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

SQLite

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Helio G85 413.5
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 8K @ 30 Hz
  • HDR - HDR Vivid, HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth - 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

87%
Turbo Clock Speed

3300 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

103%
Base Frequency

2260 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 12 MB
  • Process 12 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G52 MP2 Adreno 750
  • Architecture Bifrost 2 Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 770 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 32 -
  • FLOPS 59 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.0 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1800 MHz 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.41 Gbit/s 77 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 7 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

CPU
91%
GPU
96%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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