Overview - Snapdragon 480 Plus Vs Helio G99

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 480 Plus vs Helio G99 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 G99 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 480 Plus 15
Helio G99 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 480 Plus 71
Helio G99 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 480 Plus 35
Helio G99 38
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 480 Plus Helio G99
CPU 103367 103357
GPU 83956 86376
Memory 61234 89007
UX 96732 101683
Total score 345289 380423
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 21.21% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1000 vs 825 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 480 Plus (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 25% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 480 Plus (6 vs 8 nm).
  • Helio G99 has 10.18% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 480 Plus (380 K vs 345 K ).
  • Helio G99 Support 0.59% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (17.1 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 505
Helio G99 543

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 480 Plus 1637
Helio G99 1740

Image compression

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G99 114.8

Face detection

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G99 14.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G99 36.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G99 30.2

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G99 16.4

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G99 1.73

SQLite

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Snapdragon 480 Plus
Helio G99 599.6

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 5 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz Full 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

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

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

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 825 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 128 32
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 17.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 10 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Yes
  • Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP 1x 108MP, 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 AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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 G99

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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