Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs MediaTek Helio G81
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A756x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Frequency
3000 MHz
2000 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
8 MB
-
Process
4 nm
12 nm
TDP
6 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 735
Mali-G52 MP2
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
950 MHz
Execution units
2
-
Shading units
256
24
Vulkan version
1.3
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4200 MHz
1800 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
67.2 Gbit/s
13.41 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
Yes
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
-
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
2K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
2K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
-
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 6500 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
5.4
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,490,645
262,145
Geekbench 6
2,019
420
Geekbench 6
5,570
1,391
FP32 (float)
1,689
91