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Mediatek Helio G81 vs Mediatek Helio G81 Ultra

Mediatek Helio G81

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The Mediatek Helio G81 is a mainstream ARM SoC for smartphones (mainly Android based) that was introduced in 2020. It is manufactured in a 12 nm FinFET process and integrates 8 CPU cores. Two fast ARM Cortex-A75 cores with up to 2 GHz for performance tasks and six small ARM Cortex-A55 with up to 1.7 GHz for efficiency. All eight cores can be used together thanks to Heterogeneous Multi-Processing support. The integrated GPU is a ARM Mali-G52 MC2 (MP2) with two clusters at up to 950 MHz. The SoC also integrates the HyperEngine that handles a dynamic management of CPU, GPU and memory.

Compared to the old Helio G80, the G81 offers support for 120Hz displays.

The SoC integrates furthermore a LTE radio with Cat-7 (download) / Cat-13 (upload) support, Wifi 5 (ac), Bluetooth 5.0, LPDDR4x 1800 MHz and eMMC 5.1 storage.

Mediatek Helio G81 Ultra

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The Mediatek Helio G81 Ultra is a mainstream ARM SoC for smartphones (mainly Android based) that was introduced in 2020. It is manufactured in a 12 nm FinFET process and integrates 8 CPU cores. Two fast ARM Cortex-A75 cores with up to 2 GHz for performance tasks and six small ARM Cortex-A55 with up to 2 GHz for efficiency. All eight cores can be used together thanks to Heterogeneous Multi-Processing support. The integrated GPU is a ARM Mali-G52 MC2 (MP2) with two clusters at up to 950 MHz. The SoC also integrates the HyperEngine that handles a dynamic management of CPU, GPU and memory.

Compared to the old Helio G80, the G81 offers support for 120Hz displays.

The SoC integrates furthermore a LTE radio with Cat-7 (download) / Cat-13 (upload) support, Wifi 5 (ac), Bluetooth 5.0, LPDDR4x 1800 MHz and eMMC 5.1 storage.

ModelMediatek Helio G81Mediatek Helio G81 Ultra
CodenameCortex-A75 / A55Cortex-A75 / A55
SeriesMediatek Mediatek Helio GMediatek Mediatek Helio G
Series: Mediatek Helio G Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G88 compare1.8 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G85 compare1.8 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G81 Ultra2 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G81 « 1.7 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G80 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G70 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G88 compare1.8 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G85 compare1.8 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G81 Ultra « 2 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G811.7 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G80 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Mediatek Helio G70 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A75 / A55
Clock1700 - 2000 MHz2000 - 2000 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 8
2 x 2.0 GHz ARM Cortex-A75
6 x 1.7 GHz ARM Cortex-A55
8 / 8
2 x 2.0 GHz ARM Cortex-A75
6 x 2.0 GHz ARM Cortex-A55
Technology12 nm12 nm
Features2x Cortex-A75, 6x Cortex-A552x Cortex-A75, 6x Cortex-A55
iGPUARM Mali-G52 MP2 ( - 950 MHz)ARM Mali-G52 MP2 ( - 950 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.mediatek.comwww.mediatek.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
2776 Points (26%)
Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Single-Core
min: 372     avg: 388.5     median: 388.5 (10%)     max: 405 Points
410 Points (10%)
Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Multi-Core
min: 1341     avg: 1355     median: 1354.5 (5%)     max: 1368 Points
1011 Points (4%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
358 Points (14%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
1319 Points (2%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
2718 ms (3%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 14692     avg: 14951     median: 14951 (11%)     max: 15210 Points
14565 Points (11%)
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
56 Points (15%)
Antutu v10 - AnTuTu v10 Total Score
264891 Points (9%)
Antutu v10 - AnTuTu v10 CPU
87515 Points (3%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random write internal
46.2 MB/s (32%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq write internal
233 MB/s (7%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random read internal
32.6 MB/s (40%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq read internal
280 MB/s (8%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 score
48916 Points (22%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 3.0
min: 8960     avg: 9330     median: 9330 (34%)     max: 9700 Points
9393 Points (35%)
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
443 Points (17%)
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
5.4 Watt (2%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
0.8 Watt (1%)

Average Benchmarks Mediatek Helio G81 → 100% n=4

Average Benchmarks Mediatek Helio G81 Ultra → 95% n=4

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)