MediaTek Helio G90 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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MediaTek Helio G90

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G90 vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G90 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.2074 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2050MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G90

632

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +48%

939

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G90

1619

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +76%

2855

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G90

207

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +333%

898

MediaTek Helio G90

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

2050 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

12 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.7

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 640

720 MHz

GPU frequency

585 MHz

4

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

384

10

Max size

16

0.2074 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.8985 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

MediTek APU 2.0

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 64MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jul 2019

Announced

Dec 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6785V/CD

Model number

SM8150

MediaTek Helio G90

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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