Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Vs Helio G99

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Helio G99 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 G99 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 60
Helio G99 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 86
Helio G99 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 68
Helio G99 38
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Helio G99
CPU 270867 103357
GPU 567801 86376
Memory 239879 89007
UX 198202 101683
Total score 1276749 380423
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 45.45% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G99 (3200 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 33.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G99 (4 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 235.61% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G99 (1,277 K vs 380 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G99.

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 2.04% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (1000 vs 980 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 1.57% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (4266 vs 4200 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1490
Helio G99 543

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5198
Helio G99 1740

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 251.3
Helio G99 114.8

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 46.2
Helio G99 14.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 122.9
Helio G99 36.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 114.1
Helio G99 30.2

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 51.7
Helio G99 16.4

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 5.81
Helio G99 1.73

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 1510
Helio G99 599.6

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test 81 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • 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

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 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 2.2 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 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 740 Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 980 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units - 2
  • Shading units - 32
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.3 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4200 MHz 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 17.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 10 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1 x 200 MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 2K 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

  • Modem Snapdragon X70 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 7 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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 G99

CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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