Overview - Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 Vs Helio G85

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 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 7 Gen 1 34
Helio G85 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 26
Helio G85 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 86
Helio G85 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 49
Helio G85 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has 20.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (2400 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has 77.78% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (3200 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has 66.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (4 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has 125.68% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (561 K vs 249 K).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G85.
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 Support 90.90% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (25.6 vs 13.41 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 Support 300.00% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (1200 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Helio G85

  • Helio G85 has 66.67% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (1000 vs 600 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 812
Helio G85 361

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 3081
Helio G85 1279

Image compression

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Helio G85 81.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Helio G85 11.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Helio G85 24.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Helio G85 18.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Helio G85 9.26

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Helio G85 1.55

SQLite

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Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Helio G85 413.5

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 17 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3360 x 1600 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A710
    3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 3 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 4 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 662 Mali-G52 MP2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency 600 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units - 2
  • Shading units 384 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

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

1800 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

13.41 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3360 x 1600 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 210 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 300 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 100 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 4400 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X62 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

CPU
34%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

MediaTek Helio G85

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