Overview - Helio G88 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G88 vs Snapdragon 888 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 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G88 10
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G88 57
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G88 27
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G88 Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 69667 216591
GPU 47988 324286
Memory 44409 138188
UX 44272 167760
Total score 206336 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G88

  • Helio G88 has 10.50% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1000 vs 905 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 49.75% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G88 (2995 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 77.78% higher memory frequency than Helio G88 (3200 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 58.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G88 (5 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 310.41% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G88 (847 K vs 206 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G88.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 281.80% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G88 (51.2 vs 13.41 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G88 377
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G88 1290
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Helio G88 82.7
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Helio G88 9.99
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Helio G88 25.2
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Helio G88 19.5
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Helio G88 9.38
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Helio G88 1.41
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Helio G88 415.2
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @90Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 12 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP - 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G52 MC2 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 32 512
  • FLOPS 62 Gigaflops 1853 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 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 780
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 8K 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 - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 7 LTE Cat. 22
  • 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 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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