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MediaTek Helio G85
Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Helio G85

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 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 870 39
Helio G85 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Helio G85 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Helio G85 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Helio G85 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 60.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (3200 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 52.78% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (2750 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 41.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (7 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 158.91% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (644 K vs 249 K).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 228.11% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (44 vs 13.41 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 733.33% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (2500 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Helio G85

  • Helio G85 has 55.04% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (1000 vs 645 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Helio G85 361

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Helio G85 1279

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Helio G85 81.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Helio G85 11.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Helio G85 24.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Helio G85 18.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Helio G85 9.26

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 870
Helio G85 1.55

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Helio G85 413.5

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 7 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G52 MP2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 512 32
  • FLOPS 1,267 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

Memory frequency

2750 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

1800 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

13.41 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Neural Engine
  • Storage type 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 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 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

4G Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 300 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 100 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X55 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 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 870

CPU
39%
GPU
34%
Memory
32%
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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