Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs Helio G85

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 Plus vs Helio G85 SoCs by Qualcomm and Mediatek 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
Snapdragon 480 Plus 20
Helio G85 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Helio G85 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Helio G85 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Helio G85 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

  • Snapdragon 480 Plus has 10.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (2200 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 480 Plus has 18.50% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (2133 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 480 Plus has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (8 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 480 Plus has 38.80% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (345 K vs 249 K).
  • Snapdragon 480 Plus Support 26.77% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (17 vs 13.41 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 480 Plus Support 166.67% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (800 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Helio G85

  • Helio G85 has 21.21% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1000 vs 825 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 505
Helio G85 361

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
Helio G85 1279

Image compression

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G85 81.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G85 11.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G85 24.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G85 18.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G85 9.26

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G85 1.55

SQLite

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G85 413.5

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set - ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 8 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 3 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Mali-G52 MP2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 128 32
  • FLOPS - 59 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

1800 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

13.41 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Neural Engine
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 1K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 800 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 210 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 300 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 100 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem Snapdragon X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

MediaTek Helio G85

CPU
14%
GPU
10%
Memory
21%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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