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MediaTek Helio G85
Overview - Snapdragon 720G Vs Helio G85

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 720G 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 720G 21
Helio G85 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 720G 14
Helio G85 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 720G 71
Helio G85 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 720G 35
Helio G85 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 720G Helio G85
CPU 98820 67123
GPU 71078 61260
Memory 47158 42828
UX 52126 77565
Total score 269182 248776
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

  • Snapdragon 720G has 15.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (2300 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 720G has 3.67% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (1866 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 720G has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (8 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 720G has 8.20% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (269 K vs 249 K).
  • Snapdragon 720G Support 166.67% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (800 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Helio G85

  • Helio G85 has 33.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (1000 vs 750 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 569
Helio G85 361

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 720G 1780
Helio G85 1279

Image compression

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Snapdragon 720G 110.2
Helio G85 81.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 720G 13.1
Helio G85 11.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 720G 27.3
Helio G85 24.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 720G 26.1
Helio G85 18.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 720G 15.7
Helio G85 9.26

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 720G 2.16
Helio G85 1.55

SQLite

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Snapdragon 720G 533.6
Helio G85 413.5

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    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 1 MB -
  • Process 8 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 618 Mali-G52 MP2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency 750 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 128 32
  • FLOPS 435 Gigaflops 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 1866 MHz 1800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 13.91 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) Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs 384 kHz/32 bit AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X15 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 15 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support No No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.1 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 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
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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