Overview - Snapdragon 888 Plus Vs Helio G85

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus 43
Helio G85 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Helio G85 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Helio G85 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Helio G85 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Plus Helio G85
CPU 216591 67123
GPU 324286 61260
Memory 138188 42828
UX 167760 77565
Total score 846825 248776
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 49.75% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (2995 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 77.78% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (3200 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 58.33% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (5 vs 12 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 240.40% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (847 K vs 249 K).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G85.

Pros of MediaTek Helio G85

  • Helio G85 has 10.50% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1000 vs 905 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171
Helio G85 361

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704
Helio G85 1279

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
Helio G85 81.2

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
Helio G85 11.9

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
Helio G85 24.2

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
Helio G85 18.1

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
Helio G85 9.26

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
Helio G85 1.55

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 Plus
Helio G85 413.5

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 5 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count 10.3 Billion -
  • TDP 8 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Mali-G52 MP2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency 905 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 512 32
  • FLOPS 1853 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 3200 MHz 1800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 13.41 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 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 780 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 2000MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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 X60 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 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 888 Plus

CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

MediaTek Helio G85

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