MediaTek Helio G90 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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MediaTek Helio G90

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G90 vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G90 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.2074 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2150MHz vs 2050MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G90 +95%

632

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G90 +95%

1619

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G90

207

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +54%

319

MediaTek Helio G90

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

CPU

2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

2050 MHz

Frequency

2150 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

12 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 530

720 MHz

GPU frequency

624 MHz

4

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

256

10

Max size

8

0.2074 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3194 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

MediTek APU 2.0

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 64MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jul 2019

Announced

Nov 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6785V/CD

Model number

MSM8996

MediaTek Helio G90

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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