Overview - Helio G99 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G99 vs Snapdragon 888 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 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G99 15
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G99 79
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G99 38
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Helio G99 Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 103357 216591
GPU 86376 324286
Memory 89007 138188
UX 101683 167760
Total score 380423 846825
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 10.50% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1000 vs 905 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 Plus (4266 vs 3200 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 36.14% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G99 (2995 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G99 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 122.60% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G99 (847 K vs 380 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G99.
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 199.42% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G99 (51.2 vs 17.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Helio G99 543
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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Helio G99 1740
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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Helio G99 114.8
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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Helio G99 14.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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Helio G99 36.1
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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Helio G99 30.2
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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Helio G99 16.4
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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Helio G99 1.73
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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Helio G99 599.6
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display Full HD+ @120 Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 MB
  • Process 6 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - 10.3 Billion
  • TDP - 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC2 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Valhall Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1000 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 32 512
  • FLOPS - 1853 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 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 10 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon 780
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 8K 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 - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 22
  • 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 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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