Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs MediaTek Helio G90

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MediaTek Helio G90

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

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages

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

Higher Frequency (2150MHz vs 2050MHz)

MediaTek Helio G90 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

MediaTek Helio G90 +95%

632

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

MediaTek Helio G90 +95%

1619

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +54%

319

MediaTek Helio G90

207

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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MediaTek Helio G90

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2150 MHz

Frequency

2050 MHz

4

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

12 nm

2

Transistor count

-

11 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP4

624 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

36

8

Max size

10

0.3194 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2074 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

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

MediTek APU 2.0

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

MediTek APU 2.0

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 64MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

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

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Jul 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

MSM8996

Model number

MT6785V/CD

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

MediaTek Helio G90

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