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Mediatek Helio G99
Overview - Snapdragon 870 Vs Helio G99

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

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 870 39
Helio G99 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870 34
Helio G99 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870 75
Helio G99 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870 49
Helio G99 38
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 Helio G99
CPU 179347 103357
GPU 270188 86376
Memory 98761 89007
UX 95818 101683
Total score 644114 380423
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 has 45.45% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G99 (3200 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 69.32% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G99 (644 K vs 380 K).

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 55.04% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (1000 vs 645 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 55.13% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (4266 vs 2750 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 14.29% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (6 vs 7 nm).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 1038
Helio G99 543

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 870 3569
Helio G99 1740

Image compression

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Snapdragon 870 180.6
Helio G99 114.8

Face detection

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Snapdragon 870 25.25
Helio G99 14.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 870 54.7
Helio G99 36.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 870 56.95
Helio G99 30.2

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 870 28
Helio G99 16.4

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 870
Helio G99 1.73

SQLite

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Snapdragon 870 989.1
Helio G99 599.6

3DMark

Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz Full HD+ @120 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

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 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 2.2 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 6 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 1000 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 2750 MHz 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 17.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 10 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 UFS 2.2
  • 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 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 AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • 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 G99

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