MediaTek Helio G85 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600G. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  Mediatek Helio AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  1 4
• CPU group
  MediaTek Helio G70/G80 AMD Ryzen 5000G
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 5 4600G

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.

• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 3.90 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.00 GHz 4.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 12
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• A core
  2x Cortex-A75 --
• B core
  6x Cortex-A55 --

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-G52 MP2 AMD Radeon 7 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  1.00 GHz 1.90 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2 7
• Shader
  32 448
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  Bifrost 2 9
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  16 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2020 Q1/2020

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 / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode / Encode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and MediaTek Helio G85. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-1800 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  -- 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  -- 24

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP MediaTek Helio G85 and AMD Ryzen 5 5600G to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  -- 65 W
• TDP down
  -- 45 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by MediaTek Helio G85 and MediaTek Helio G85, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  -- SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 3.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A75 / Cortex-A55 Cezanne (Zen 3)
• Technology
  12 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  N/A AM4
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q2/2021
• Part Number
  MT6769Z --