MediaTek Helio G96 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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MediaTek Helio G96

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G96 vs. 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G96 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5675 TFLOPS vs 0.243 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 17.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2450MHz vs 2050MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 12nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio G96 +14%

388043

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

339384

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G96 +56%

651

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

415

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G96 +22%

1860

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

1519

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G96

243

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +133%

567

MediaTek Helio G96

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

2050 MHz

Frequency

2450 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

12 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP2

GPU name

Adreno 540

950 MHz

GPU frequency

739 MHz

2

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

384

10

Max size

8

0.243 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5675 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

17.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 682

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

2K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

2K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X16

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 16

No

5G support

No

Up to 650 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Jun 2021

Announced

Nov 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6781

Model number

MSM8998

MediaTek Helio G96

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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