Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Vs Helio G90T

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Helio G90T 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 8 Gen 2 57
Helio G90T 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Helio G90T 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Helio G90T 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Helio G90T 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 56.10% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G90T (3200 vs 2050 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 22.50% higher GPU clock speed than Helio G90T (980 vs 800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 96.91% higher memory frequency than Helio G90T (4200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 66.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G90T (4 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 340.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G90T (1,277 K vs 290 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G90T.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Support 316.67% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G90T (2500 vs 600 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490
Helio G90T 545

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198
Helio G90T 1706

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3
Helio G90T 94.5

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2
Helio G90T 13.8

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9
Helio G90T 31.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1
Helio G90T 25.6

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7
Helio G90T 13.1

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81
Helio G90T 1.89

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510
Helio G90T 494.9

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS
Stability 87%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2050 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
    2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 8 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 740 Mali-G76 MC4
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 980 MHz 800 MHz
  • Execution units - 4
  • Shading units - 64
  • FLOPS - 184 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

4200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

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memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

-
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

10 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1 x 200 MP 1x 64MP, 2x 24MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 600 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 10000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem Snapdragon X70 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 12
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 7 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 8 Gen 2

CPU
57%
GPU
60%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Helio G90T

CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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