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Mediatek Helio G96
Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Helio G96

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Helio G96 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 860 29
Helio G96 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Helio G96 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Helio G96 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Helio G96 31
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Helio G96
CPU 143028 98570
GPU 179320 76840
Memory 69420 70017
UX 72190 94023
Total score 463958 339450
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 44.39% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G96 (2960 vs 2050 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 41.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G96 (7 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 36.68% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G96 (464 K vs 339 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 233.33% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G96 (2000 vs 600 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Helio G96

  • Helio G96 has 40.74% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (950 vs 675 MHz).
  • Helio G96 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Helio G96 544

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Helio G96 1884

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Helio G96

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Helio G96

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Helio G96

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Helio G96

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Helio G96

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Helio G96

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Helio G96

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2050 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 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 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 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 -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Mali G57 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 384 32
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 10 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 2 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Yes
  • 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 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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 G96

CPU
21%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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