Overview - Helio G99 Vs Snapdragon 778G Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G99 vs Snapdragon 778G Plus 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 778G Plus 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G99 15
Snapdragon 778G Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G99 79
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G99 38
Snapdragon 778G Plus 46
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G99 Snapdragon 778G Plus
CPU 103357 166382
GPU 86376 177972
Memory 89007 106394
UX 101683 130486
Total score 380423 581234
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 81.82% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (1000 vs 550 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 778G Plus (4266 vs 3200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 13.64% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G99 (2500 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 52.79% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G99 (581 K vs 380 K ).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G99.
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus 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 778G Plus 816

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G99 1740
Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971

Image compression

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Helio G99 114.8
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Face detection

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Helio G99 14.3
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Speech recognition

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Helio G99 36.1
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Machine learning

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Helio G99 30.2
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Camera shooting

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Helio G99 16.4
Snapdragon 778G Plus

HTML 5

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Helio G99 1.73
Snapdragon 778G Plus

SQLite

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Helio G99 599.6
Snapdragon 778G Plus

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @120 Hz FHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.5 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 2 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC2 Adreno 642L
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 550 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 32 384
  • FLOPS - 845 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 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 Hexagon 770
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 192MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • 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 - X53
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • 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 778G Plus

CPU
33%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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