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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 32
Helio G88 12
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 27
Helio G88 8
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Helio G88 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 45
Helio G88 26
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 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

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

50%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

44%
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
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed 2500 Mbps 300 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps -
  • 4G Upload Speed 316 Mbps 100 Mbps
  • 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
32%
GPU
27%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Mediatek Helio G88

CPU
12%
GPU
8%
Memory
21%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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