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Mediatek Helio G88
Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Helio G88

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 870 39
Helio G88 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Helio G88 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Helio G88 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Helio G88 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Helio G88
CPU 179347 69667
GPU 270188 47988
Memory 98761 44409
UX 95818 44272
Total score 644114 206336
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 60.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G88 (3200 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 52.78% higher memory frequency than Helio G88 (2750 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 41.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G88 (7 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 212.17% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G88 (644 K vs 206 K).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 228.11% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G88 (44 vs 13.41 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 733.33% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G88 (2500 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Helio G88

  • Helio G88 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 G88 377

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Helio G88 1290

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Helio G88 82.7

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Helio G88 9.99

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Helio G88 25.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Helio G88 19.5

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Helio G88 9.38

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 870
Helio G88 1.41

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Helio G88 415.2

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 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+, 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 -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 650 Mali-G52 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 512 32
  • FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops 62 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 2750 MHz 1800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 13.41 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 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 Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 eMMC 5.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 64MP, 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

  • 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 G88

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