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Mediatek Helio G99
Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs Helio G99

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 888 43
Helio G99 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
Helio G99 15
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
Helio G99 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
Helio G99 38
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 29.09% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G99 (2840 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G99 (5 vs 6 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 112.53% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G99 (808 K vs 380 K).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Helio G99.
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 199.42% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G99 (51.2 vs 17.1 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Helio G99

  • Helio G99 has 19.05% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (1000 vs 840 MHz).
  • Helio G99 has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 1126
Helio G99 543

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 3681
Helio G99 1740

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 177.1
Helio G99 114.8

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 26.5
Helio G99 14.3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 67.7
Helio G99 36.1

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 59.9
Helio G99 30.2

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 37.5
Helio G99 16.4

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 3.96
Helio G99 1.73

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 1060
Helio G99 599.6

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 8 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 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 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 -
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.84 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 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 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 6 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Mali-G57 MC2
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Valhall
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 512 32
  • FLOPS 1720 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

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

4266 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17.1 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

10 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 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 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 AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X60 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 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 888

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

Mediatek Helio G99

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