Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs MediaTek Helio G85

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

MediaTek Helio G85

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Helio G85 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.096 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 13.41GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2000MHz)

MediaTek Helio G85 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

MediaTek Helio G85 +15%

270144

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

MediaTek Helio G85 +6%

416

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

MediaTek Helio G85 +67%

1338

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +247%

334

MediaTek Helio G85

96

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

MediaTek Helio G85

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2342 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

12 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G52 MP2

653 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

1

Execution units

2

256

Shading units

24

8

Max size

8

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.096 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.41 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

2K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

2K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Apr 2020

Flagship

Class

Low end

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

MT6769Z

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

MediaTek Helio G85

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