Overview - Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Vs Helio G88

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 vs Helio G88 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 Plus Gen 1 49
Helio G88 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 51
Helio G88 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 86
Helio G88 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 62
Helio G88 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Helio G88
CPU 243697 69667
GPU 478120 47988
Memory 191931 44409
UX 184166 44272
Total score 1097914 206336
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 60.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G88 (3200 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 77.78% higher memory frequency than Helio G88 (3200 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 66.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G88 (4 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 432.10% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G88 (1,098 K vs 206 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G88.
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Support 733.33% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G88 (2500 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Helio G88

  • Helio G88 has 11.11% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (1000 vs 900 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 1311
Helio G88 377

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 4117
Helio G88 1290

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Helio G88 82.7

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Helio G88 9.99

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Helio G88 25.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Helio G88 19.5

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Helio G88 9.38

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Helio G88 1.41

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Helio G88 415.2

3DMark

Stability 69%

Graphics test 59 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ @90Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2021 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 2 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 - -
  • L3 cache 6 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Mali-G52 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 900 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units - 2
  • Shading units - 32
  • FLOPS - 62 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 1800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 13.41 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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 Snapdragon X65 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 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 8 Plus Gen 1

CPU
49%
GPU
51%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Mediatek Helio G88

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