Helio G96 Vs Dimensity 820
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G96 vs Dimensity 820 SoCs by Mediatek. 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Mediatek Helio G96
- Helio G96 has 5.56% higher GPU clock speed than Dimensity 820 (950 vs 900 MHz).
Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820
- Dimensity 820 has 26.83% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G96 (2600 vs 2050 MHz).
- Dimensity 820 has 41.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G96 (7 vs 12 nm).
- Dimensity 820 has 28.40% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G96 (436 K vs 339 K ).
- Dimensity 820 has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G96.
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 98570 | 125662 |
| GPU | 76840 | 125708 |
| Memory | 70017 | 77949 |
| UX | 94023 | 106547 |
| Total score | 339450 | 435866 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | - | 142.3 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | - | 22.4 images/s |
| Speech recognition | - | 41.2 words/s |
| Machine learning | - | 31.3 images/s |
| Camera shooting | - | 21.3 images/s |
| HTML 5 | - | 2.94 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | - | 759 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
8%
Mediatek G9617%
Dimensity 820Score: 2165
| Stability | 99% | 98% |
| Graphics test | 6 FPS | 13 FPS |
| Score | 1086 | 2165 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Mediatek Helio G96 and Mediatek Dimensity 820Display
| Max On-Device Display | FHD+ @ 120Hz | Full HD+ @ 120Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 2520 x 1080 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max External Display | - | - |
| HDR | HDR10 | HDR, HDR10+ |
| Color Depth | Up to 10-bit | - |
| Color Gamut | Rec2020 | - |
CPU
54%
Mediatek G9669%
Dimensity 820
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76 6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2000 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2050 MHz | 2600 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8.3-A |
| L1 cache | - | - |
| L2 cache | - | - |
| L3 cache | - | - |
| Process | 12 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistor count | - | - |
| TDP | - | 10 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali G57 MC2 | Mali-G57 MC5 |
| Architecture | Valhall | Valhall |
| GPU frequency | 950 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Execution units | 2 | 5 |
| Shading units | 32 | 80 |
| FLOPS | - | - |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 2 x 16 Bit | 1x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | - | 17.07 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 10 GB | 16 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Yes | MediaTek APU 3.0 |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 | UFS 2.2 |
| Max display resolution | 2520 x 1080 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP | 1x 80MP, 2x 32MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 13 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | No | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | - | Up to 4700 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | - | Up to 2500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.1 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
Info
| Announced Date | June 2021 | May 2020 |
| Class | Mid-range | Mid range |
| Model number | MT6781 | MT6875 |
| Official page | Helio G96 official site | Dimensity 820 official site |
Mediatek Helio G96
29.5
Review By TenzysTech
Mediatek Dimensity 820
30.5
Review By TenzysTech
