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MediaTek Helio G85
Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Helio G85

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 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 860 29
Helio G85 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Helio G85 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Helio G85 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Helio G85 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Helio G85
CPU 143028 67123
GPU 179320 61260
Memory 69420 42828
UX 72190 77565
Total score 463958 248776
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 48.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (2960 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 18.50% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (2133 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 41.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (7 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 86.50% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (464 K vs 249 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 566.67% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (2000 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Helio G85

  • Helio G85 has 48.15% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1000 vs 675 MHz).
  • Helio G85 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Helio G85 361

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Helio G85 1279

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Helio G85 81.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Helio G85 11.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Helio G85 24.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Helio G85 18.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Helio G85 9.26

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Helio G85 1.55

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Helio G85 413.5

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali-G52 MP2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 384 32
  • FLOPS 1037 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 2133 MHz 1800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 13.41 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Neural Engine
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 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 AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

MediaTek Helio G85

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