Overview - Snapdragon 778G Plus Vs Helio G85

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 778G 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 778G Plus 33
Helio G85 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 778G Plus 26
Helio G85 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
Helio G85 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 778G Plus 46
Helio G85 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 778G Plus Helio G85
CPU 166382 67123
GPU 177972 61260
Memory 106394 42828
UX 130486 77565
Total score 581234 248776
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 25.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (2500 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 77.78% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (3200 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 50% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (6 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 133.64% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (581 K vs 249 K).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G85.
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus Support 90.90% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (25.6 vs 13.41 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Helio G85

  • Helio G85 has 81.82% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (1000 vs 550 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778G Plus 816
Helio G85 361

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971
Helio G85 1279

Image compression

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Snapdragon 778G Plus
Helio G85 81.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 778G Plus
Helio G85 11.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 778G Plus
Helio G85 24.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 778G Plus
Helio G85 18.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 778G Plus
Helio G85 9.26

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 778G Plus
Helio G85 1.55

SQLite

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Snapdragon 778G Plus
Helio G85 413.5

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.5 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 2 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 6 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 5 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 642L Mali-G52 MP2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency 550 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 384 32
  • FLOPS 845 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 3200 MHz 1800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 25.6 Gbit/s 13.41 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 770 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP 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, VP8, 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

  • Modem X53 -
  • 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 778G Plus

CPU
33%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
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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