MediaTek Helio G90 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

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MediaTek Helio G90 Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G90 vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 . 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)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.3721 TFLOPS vs 0.2074 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2050MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G90

632

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +82%

1151

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G90

1619

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +106%

3336

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G90

207

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +562%

1372

MediaTek Helio G90

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

CPU

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

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)

2050 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

12 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

10.3

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 650

720 MHz

GPU frequency

670 MHz

4

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

512

10

Max size

16

0.2074 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.3721 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

MediTek APU 2.0

NPU

Hexagon 698

Multimedia (ISP)

MediTek APU 2.0

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 698

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 64MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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

X55

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Jul 2019

Announced

Jan 2021

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6785V/CD

Model number

SM8250-AC

MediaTek Helio G90

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

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