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Summary Benchmarks Specifications User Reviews Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance Rank 2 - 99 % MediaTek Helio G80 Rank 1 - 100 % Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Multi-core performance Rank 1 - 100 % MediaTek Helio G80 Rank 2 - 76 % Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Geekbench 6 Single-CoreSingle-core performance

MediaTek Helio G80 100 % 8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz 406 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 91 % 4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz 370 1,981 entriesShow all results

Geekbench 6 Multi-CoreMulti-core performance

MediaTek Helio G80 100 % 8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz 1,350 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 56 % 4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz 752 1,919 entriesShow all results

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-CoreSingle-core performance

MediaTek Helio G80 90 % 8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz 306 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 100 % 4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz 341 2,512 entriesShow all results

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-CoreMulti-core performance

MediaTek Helio G80 91 % 8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz 786 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 100 % 4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz 864 2,483 entriesShow all results

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

MediaTek Helio G80 13 % ARM Mali-G52 MP2 61 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 100 % Qualcomm Adreno 530 476 2,209 entriesShow all results

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC) 1,981 entries Geekbench 6 (MC) 1,919 entries Geekbench 5 (SC) 2,512 entries Geekbench 5 (MC) 2,483 entries FP32 SP (iGPU) 2,209 entries AnTuTu 9 Benchmark 90 entries AnTuTu 8 Benchmark 118 entries PassMark CPU-Mark 2,501 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G80	Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
Family	Mediatek Helio (37)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	MediaTek Helio G70/G80 (4)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (3)
Architecture	Cortex-A75 / Cortex-A55	Kryo
Technology	12 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G80	Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Cortex-A752.00 GHz	2x Kryo2.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	6x Cortex-A551.80 GHz	2x Kryo1.60 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G80	Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
GPU name	ARM Mali-G52 MP2	Qualcomm Adreno 530
GPU frequency	0.95 GHz	0.62 - 0.62 GHz
CUs / Shader	2 / 32	/ 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	0
Max. GPU Memory
Technology	16 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2020	Q4/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G80	Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
AI hardware	Qualcomm AI engine
AI specifications	Hexagon 680
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G80	Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
Memory	(14.4 GB/s)	LPDDR4-3733 (14.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G80	Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
TDP
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G80	Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	Android	Android
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q2/2020	Q3/2016
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of MediaTek Helio G80 is 3.6 stars (46 ratings), while Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 has received 4.6 stars (7 ratings). Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

MediaTek Helio G80 8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz ★★★★★ Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz ★★★★★

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Popular Comparisons

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