The Helio G85 comes with two Cortex-A75 cores running at 2.0GHz and six Cortex-A55 units at 1.8GHz. The Mali-G52 GPU now is clocked at 1GHz, unlike the Helio G80 that was doing 950MHz. This processor is a waste of money my 2 year old phone with SD636 run smooth on games low - medium setting but this helio g85 have constant frame drops on lowest possible setting even opening 2 tab. The Helio G85 is an upgraded variant of Helio G80. It joins other Helio G Series SoCs like Helio G70, G80, and G90 Series. You might be wondering what are the differences Helio G85 packs over the lower Helio G80 and Helio G90T. To clear all of your doubts here in this article, I have compared all these three SoCs. ✖ MediaTek Helio G85 Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) is a more advanced version of big.LITTLE technology. In this setup, a processor can utilize all cores at the same time, or just a single core for low-intensity tasks. This can provide powerful performance or increased battery life respectively.

Xiaomi unveiled the Redmi Note 9 last week with a chipset called Helio G85 by Mediatek. Today the Taiwanese chip manufacturer has finally detailed the SoC itself - it comes with slightly faster GPU than the Helio G80, but keeps the same CPU.

The Helio G85 comes with two Cortex-A75 cores running at 2.0GHz and six Cortex-A55 units at 1.8GHz. The Mali-G52 GPU now is clocked at 1GHz, unlike the Helio G80 that was doing 950MHz. The chip has all of the features from the Helio G80 like VoW (voice on wakeup) and enhanced HyperEngine Game technology.

Promo image with all the neat features of the Helio G85 chipset

MediaTek promises intelligent prediction of Wi-Fi and LTE concurrency and the chip can switch between networks in just 13 ms - enough to provide a lag-free connection. It will also bring faster response between cell towers and the cell phone and will defer calls while in-game without dropping the data connection - an issue that even flagships are struggling with.

Mediatek is already shipping the SoC to manufacturers, so we expect more smartphones in the $200 price range to arrive with the Helio G85.

Reader comments

• Anonymous
• KgV

This processor is a waste of money my 2 year old phone with SD636 run smooth on games low - medium setting but this helio g85 have constant frame drops on lowest possible setting even opening 2 tab of chrome window and facebook phone blackout scre...

• Khen
• sxs

I would say it sucks when it comes to gaming especially on mobile legends and codm some say pubgm lags on g85 device .

• Truthtobetold
• D0b

Two coretex-A75 cores manufactured at 14nm and clocked at 2ghz. Why do they even make these soc in 2020.

We compared two 8-core processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 (with Adreno 610 graphics) and MediaTek Helio G85 (Mali-G52 MP2). Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

Mediatek Helio G85 Vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

• Performs 5.1x better in floating-point computations
• Developers optimize games for Snapdragon processors more often than for Helio
• 10% higher CPU clock speed (2200 vs 2000 MHz)
• Has a smaller size transistor (11 versus 12 nm)
• Supports 11% higher memory bandwidth (14.9 against 13.41 GB/s)

• Higher GPU frequency (~67%)
• Announced 1-year and 1-month later
• Shows better (up to 10%) AnTuTu 8 score – 195K vs 177K

Benchmarks

Specifications

Mediatek Helio G85 Vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 665

Helio G85 Vs Snapdragon 665

Mtk Helio G85

Helio G85 Benchmark