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Mediatek Helio G99
Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Helio G99

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 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 860 29
Helio G99 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Helio G99 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Helio G99 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Helio G99 38
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 Helio G99
CPU 143028 103357
GPU 179320 86376
Memory 69420 89007
UX 72190 101683
Total score 463958 380423
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 34.55% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G99 (2960 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 21.96% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G99 (464 K vs 380 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 99.59% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G99 (34.13 vs 17.1 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 48.15% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1000 vs 675 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (6 vs 7 nm).
  • Helio G99 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Helio G99 543

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Helio G99 1740

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Helio G99 114.8

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Helio G99 14.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Helio G99 36.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Helio G99 30.2

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Helio G99 16.4

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Helio G99 1.73

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Helio G99 599.6

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz Full HD+ @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

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 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 2.2 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 6 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 1000 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 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 17.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 10 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 Yes
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • 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 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 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 G99

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