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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 - 68 % MediaTek Helio G88 Rank 1 - 100 % MediaTek Helio G96 Multi-core performance Rank 2 - 70 % MediaTek Helio G88 Rank 1 - 100 % MediaTek Helio G96

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-CoreSingle-core performance

MediaTek Helio G88 68 % 8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz 359 MediaTek Helio G96 100 % 8C / 8T · 2.05 GHz 527 2,507 entriesShow all results

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-CoreMulti-core performance

MediaTek Helio G88 71 % 8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz 1,289 MediaTek Helio G96 100 % 8C / 8T · 2.05 GHz 1,813 2,478 entriesShow all results

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

MediaTek Helio G88 26 % ARM Mali-G52 MP2 64 MediaTek Helio G96 100 % ARM Mali-G57 MP2 243 2,190 entriesShow all results

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC) 1,960 entries Geekbench 6 (MC) 1,896 entries Geekbench 5 (SC) 2,507 entries Geekbench 5 (MC) 2,478 entries FP32 SP (iGPU) 2,190 entries AnTuTu 9 Benchmark 90 entries AnTuTu 8 Benchmark 118 entries PassMark CPU-Mark 2,488 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G88	MediaTek Helio G96
Family	Mediatek Helio (37)	Mediatek Helio (37)
CPU group	MediaTek Helio G70/G80 (4)	MediaTek Helio G90 (4)
Architecture	Cortex-A75 / Cortex-A55	Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55
Technology	12 nm	12 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G88	MediaTek Helio G96
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Cortex-A752.00 GHz	2x Cortex-A762.05 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	6x Cortex-A551.80 GHz	6x Cortex-A552.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G88	MediaTek Helio G96
GPU name	ARM Mali-G52 MP2	ARM Mali-G57 MP2
GPU frequency	1.00 GHz	0.25 - 0.95 GHz
CUs / Shader	2 / 32	2 / 32
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB
Technology	16 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2020	Q2/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G88	MediaTek Helio G96
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G88	MediaTek Helio G96
Memory	(14.4 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	10 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G88	MediaTek Helio G96
TDP
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	MediaTek Helio G88	MediaTek Helio G96
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	Q3/2021
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 G88 is 3.5 stars (57 ratings), while MediaTek Helio G96 has received 3.8 stars (26 ratings). Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

MediaTek Helio G88 8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz ★★★★★ MediaTek Helio G96 8C / 8T · 2.05 GHz ★★★★★

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