Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs MediaTek Helio G81
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CPU
Architecture
2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A756x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Frequency
4610 MHz
2000 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache
1792 KB
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L2 cache
24 MB
—
L3 cache
8 MB
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Process
3 nm
12 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 840
Mali-G52 MP2
GPU frequency
1200 MHz
950 MHz
Shading units
512
24
Vulkan version
—
1.3
OpenCL version
—
2.0
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Memory frequency
—
1800 MHz
Max bandwidth
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13.41 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
Yes
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
2K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 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
Max display resolution
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2520 x 1080
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
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5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Sep 2025
Aug 2024
Class
Flagship
Low end
Model number
SM8850
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Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,115,282
262,145
Geekbench 6
3,834
420
Geekbench 6
12,396
1,391
FP32 (float)
3,686
91
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.