Overview - Helio G88 Vs Snapdragon 778G Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G88 vs Snapdragon 778G Plus 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 778G Plus 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G88 10
Snapdragon 778G Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G88 57
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G88 27
Snapdragon 778G Plus 46
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G88 Snapdragon 778G Plus
CPU 69667 166382
GPU 47988 177972
Memory 44409 106394
UX 44272 130486
Total score 206336 581234
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G88

  • Helio G88 has 81.82% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (1000 vs 550 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 25% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G88 (2500 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 77.78% higher memory frequency than Helio G88 (3200 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 50% smaller sized transistor than Helio G88 (6 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 181.69% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G88 (581 K vs 206 K ).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G88.
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus Support 90.90% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G88 (25.6 vs 13.41 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G88 377
Snapdragon 778G Plus 816

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G88 1290
Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971

Image compression

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Helio G88 82.7
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Face detection

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Helio G88 9.99
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Speech recognition

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Helio G88 25.2
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Machine learning

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Helio G88 19.5
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Camera shooting

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Helio G88 9.38
Snapdragon 778G Plus

HTML 5

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Helio G88 1.41
Snapdragon 778G Plus

SQLite

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Helio G88 415.2
Snapdragon 778G Plus

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @90Hz FHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.5 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 2 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 12 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G52 MC2 Adreno 642L
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 550 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 32 384
  • FLOPS 62 Gigaflops 845 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 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.41 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 770
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1 UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 192MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X53
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 7 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • 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 778G Plus

CPU
33%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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