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Mediatek Helio G99
Overview - Helio G99 Vs Snapdragon 720G

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G99 vs Snapdragon 720G 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Helio G99 20
Snapdragon 720G 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G99 15
Snapdragon 720G 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G99 79
Snapdragon 720G 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G99 38
Snapdragon 720G 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G99 Snapdragon 720G
CPU 103357 98820
GPU 86376 71078
Memory 89007 47158
UX 101683 52126
Total score 380423 269182
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 33.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (1000 vs 750 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 128.62% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 720G (4266 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 720G (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Helio G99 has 41.33% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (380 K vs 269 K).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

  • Snapdragon 720G has 4.55% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G99 (2300 vs 2200 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G99 543
Snapdragon 720G 569

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G99 1740
Snapdragon 720G 1780

Image compression

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Helio G99 114.8
Snapdragon 720G 110.2

Face detection

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Helio G99 14.3
Snapdragon 720G 13.1

Speech recognition

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Helio G99 36.1
Snapdragon 720G 27.3

Machine learning

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Helio G99 30.2
Snapdragon 720G 26.1

Camera shooting

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Helio G99 16.4
Snapdragon 720G 15.7

HTML 5

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Helio G99 1.73
Snapdragon 720G 2.16

SQLite

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Helio G99 599.6
Snapdragon 720G 533.6

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @120 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - 1 MB
  • Process 6 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC2 Adreno 618
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 32 128
  • FLOPS - 435 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 4266 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17.1 Gbit/s 13.91 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 Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 4K 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 384 kHz/32 bit
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X15
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 15
  • 5G support No No
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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