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Mediatek Helio G99
Overview - Helio G99 Vs Snapdragon 685

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G99 vs Snapdragon 685 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 G99 20
Snapdragon 685 17
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G99 15
Snapdragon 685 11
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G99 79
Snapdragon 685 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G99 38
Snapdragon 685 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G99 Snapdragon 685
CPU 103357 81894
GPU 86376 39122
Memory 89007 77991
UX 101683 71216
Total score 380423 270223
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 685 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 40.78% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (380 K vs 270 K).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 27.27% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G99 (2800 vs 2200 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G99 543
Snapdragon 685 377

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G99 1740
Snapdragon 685 1609

Image compression

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Helio G99 114.8
Snapdragon 685

Face detection

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Helio G99 14.3
Snapdragon 685

Speech recognition

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Helio G99 36.1
Snapdragon 685

Machine learning

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Helio G99 30.2
Snapdragon 685

Camera shooting

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Helio G99 16.4
Snapdragon 685

HTML 5

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Helio G99 1.73
Snapdragon 685

SQLite

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Helio G99 599.6
Snapdragon 685

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @120 Hz HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 1080 × 2520
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC2 Adreno 610
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz -
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 32 96
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.1 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 10 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 Hexagon 686
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 1080p at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X11
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support No No
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Helio G99

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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