Samsung Exynos 7904 vs MediaTek Helio G85. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Samsung Exynos Mediatek Helio
• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 7872/7884/7885/7904 MediaTek Helio G70/G80
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  2 1

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Frequency
  1.60 GHz 1.80 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  1.80 GHz 2.00 GHz
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  1.80 GHz 1.80 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  ARM Mali-G71 MP2 ARM Mali-G52 MP2
• GPU frequency
  0.77 GHz 1.00 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2 2
• Shader
  32 32
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  1 2
• Generation
  Bifrost 1 Bifrost 2
• Technology
  16 nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q3/2020

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by MediaTek Helio G85 and Samsung Exynos 7904. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-1866 LPDDR4X-1800
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 7904 and MediaTek Helio G85 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 7904 and Samsung Exynos 7904, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  --
• Architecture
  Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53 Cortex-A75 / Cortex-A55
• Technology
  14 nm 12 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2019 Q2/2020
• Part Number
  -- MT6769Z