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MediaTek Helio G85
Overview - Snapdragon 685 Vs Helio G85

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 685 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 685 17
Helio G85 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 685 11
Helio G85 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 685 79
Helio G85 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 685 36
Helio G85 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 685 Helio G85
CPU 81894 67123
GPU 39122 61260
Memory 77991 42828
UX 71216 77565
Total score 270223 248776
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

  • Snapdragon 685 has 40.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (2800 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 685 has 18.50% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (2133 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 685 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (6 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 685 has 8.62% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (270 K vs 249 K).
  • Snapdragon 685 Support 30.00% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (390 vs 300 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 377
Helio G85 361

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 685 1609
Helio G85 1279

Image compression

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Snapdragon 685
Helio G85 81.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 685
Helio G85 11.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 685
Helio G85 24.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 685
Helio G85 18.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 685
Helio G85 9.26

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 685
Helio G85 1.55

SQLite

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Snapdragon 685
Helio G85 413.5

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 1080 × 2520 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
    4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 610 Mali-G52 MP2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency - 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 96 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 2133 MHz 1800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 13.41 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 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 UFS 2.2 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 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, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X11 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support No 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 685

CPU
17%
GPU
11%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

MediaTek Helio G85

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