Overview - Helio G88 Vs Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G88 vs Snapdragon 8s 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 G88 14
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 70
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G88 10
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 63
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G88 57
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G88 27
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 73
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G88 Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
CPU 69667 374214
GPU 47988 516258
Memory 44409 344248
UX 44272 259884
Total score 206336 1494604
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 50% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G88 (3000 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 10.00% higher GPU clock speed than Helio G88 (1100 vs 1000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 133.33% higher memory frequency than Helio G88 (4200 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 66.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G88 (4 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has 624.35% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G88 (1,495 K vs 206 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G88.
  • Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Support 377.26% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G88 (64 vs 13.41 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G88 377
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 1999

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G88 1290
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 5273

Image compression

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Helio G88 82.7
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Face detection

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Helio G88 9.99
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Speech recognition

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Helio G88 25.2
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Machine learning

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Helio G88 19.5
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Camera shooting

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Helio G88 9.38
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

HTML 5

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Helio G88 1.41
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

SQLite

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Helio G88 415.2
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Stability 85.3%

Graphics test 67 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @90Hz QHD+ @ 144 Hz, 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 8K @ 30 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10, HDR10+, HDR Vivid
  • Color Depth - 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
    3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 8 MB
  • Process 12 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G52 MC2 Adreno 735
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 32 768
  • FLOPS 62 Gigaflops 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1800 MHz 4200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.41 Gbit/s 64 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) Yes Hexagon
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 2K 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 X70
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 7 LTE Cat. 22
  • 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 G88

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU
70%
GPU
63%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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