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Mediatek Helio G88
Overview - Helio G88 Vs Snapdragon 720G

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G88 vs Snapdragon 720G 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 G88 14
Snapdragon 720G 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G88 10
Snapdragon 720G 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G88 57
Snapdragon 720G 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G88 27
Snapdragon 720G 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G88 Snapdragon 720G
CPU 69667 98820
GPU 47988 71078
Memory 44409 47158
UX 44272 52126
Total score 206336 269182
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G88

  • Helio G88 has 33.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (1000 vs 750 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

  • Snapdragon 720G has 15% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G88 (2300 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 720G has 3.67% higher memory frequency than Helio G88 (1866 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 720G has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G88 (8 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 720G has 30.46% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G88 (269 K vs 206 K ).
  • Snapdragon 720G Support 3.73% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G88 (13.91 vs 13.41 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G88 377
Snapdragon 720G 569

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G88 1290
Snapdragon 720G 1780

Image compression

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Helio G88 82.7
Snapdragon 720G 110.2

Face detection

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Helio G88 9.99
Snapdragon 720G 13.1

Speech recognition

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Helio G88 25.2
Snapdragon 720G 27.3

Machine learning

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Helio G88 19.5
Snapdragon 720G 26.1

Camera shooting

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Helio G88 9.38
Snapdragon 720G 15.7

HTML 5

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Helio G88 1.41
Snapdragon 720G 2.16

SQLite

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Helio G88 415.2
Snapdragon 720G 533.6

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @90Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 1 MB
  • Process 12 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G52 MC2 Adreno 618
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 32 128
  • FLOPS 62 Gigaflops 435 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1800 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.41 Gbit/s 13.91 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV 384 kHz/32 bit
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X15
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 7 LTE Cat. 15
  • 5G support No No
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Helio G88

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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