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Mediatek Helio G96
Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Helio G96

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

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 870 39
Helio G96 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Helio G96 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Helio G96 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Helio G96 31
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 56.10% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G96 (3200 vs 2050 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Helio G96 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 41.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G96 (7 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 89.75% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G96 (644 K vs 339 K).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 316.67% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G96 (2500 vs 600 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Helio G96

  • Helio G96 has 47.29% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (950 vs 645 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Helio G96 544

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Helio G96 1884

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Helio G96

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Helio G96

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Helio G96

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Helio G96

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Helio G96

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Helio G96

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz FHD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

54%
Turbo Clock Speed

2050 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 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 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 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 G57 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 645 MHz 950 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 512 32
  • FLOPS 1,267 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

Memory frequency

2750 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

-
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

10 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2 x 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, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 600 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 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. 13
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
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 G96

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