Overview - Helio G99 Vs Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G99 vs Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 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 7 Plus Gen 2 54
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G99 15
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G99 79
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G99 38
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 62
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G99 Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
CPU 103357 246704
GPU 86376 352464
Memory 89007 176323
UX 101683 171430
Total score 380423 946921
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 72.41% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (1000 vs 580 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has 32.27% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G99 (2910 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G99 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has 148.91% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G99 (947 K vs 380 K ).
  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G99.
  • Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 Support 49.71% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G99 (25.6 vs 17.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G99 543
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 1656

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G99 1740
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 4482

Image compression

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Helio G99 114.8
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Face detection

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Helio G99 14.3
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Speech recognition

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Helio G99 36.1
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Machine learning

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Helio G99 30.2
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Camera shooting

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Helio G99 16.4
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

HTML 5

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Helio G99 1.73
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

SQLite

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Helio G99 599.6
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Stability 85%

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @120 Hz QHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3360 x 1600
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

2910 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.49 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC2 Adreno 725
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 580 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 32 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.2
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.1 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 10 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 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3360 x 1600
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.3
  • 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 7 Plus Gen 2

CPU
54%
GPU
46%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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