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Qualcomm has finally announced the full specification of the Snapdragon 765G, and the slightly slower SD730. These will set a new standard for the upper mid-range market going into 2020 and it looks like many phones will have 5G moving forward.
So how does the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G compare to the Snapdragon 730G and the more recent MediaTek Helio G90T?
While I have included the Kirin 810 in some of these comparisons, for the UK and most other countries, there have been no Kirin 810 based phones yet, due to the issues with the US political disputes.
Fabrication Process
The Snapdragon 765 has seen a switch to the new Samsung 7nm EUV (7LPP) fabrication process, which is a decent improvement compared to last years 8nm of the SD730G.
This is a huge advantage over the 12nm FinFET which the Mediatek Helio G90t.
CPU
As rumoured the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G will stick to using the Coretex A76 based CPUs but they will receive a small to moderate frequency bump with the two performance cores operating at different frequencies.
The Snapdragon 730G had two Kryo 470 (CA76) running at 2.2GHz the Snapdragon 765 will use one running at 2.3GHz and the other at 2.2GHz.
The 730G will bump up the main core to 2.4GHz but keep the 2.2GHz for the 2nd core.
For the six A55 cores, things stay the same with them all clocked at 1.8GHz.
In comparison the Mediatek Helio G90t uses two A76 cores clocked at 2.05Ghz, however, its six A55 cores are clocked higher at 2.0Ghz.
The Kirin 810 then sits somewhere between them both with two A76 cores at 2.23 GHz and six A55 cores at 1.88 GHz.
GPU
The Snapdragon 765 and 730G has been upgraded to the Adreno 620 GPU. We don’t know too much about this year, but Qualcomm claim a 20% improvement in performance with the 765 and 38% improvement with the 765G.
The Mediatek Helio G90t uses a Mali G76 MP4 @ 800MHz and this performed at a similar spec to the Snapdragon 730G beating it in some benchmarks and losing in others. So it is likely the Snapdragon 765G will easily take the lead here.
Artificial Intelligence
The new Snapdragon 730 chipsets feature the Hexagon 696 DSP upgrading it from the Hexagon 688. Qualcomm claims this allows the chipset to perform 5.4 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS) across all the processors on the chipset (CPU+GPU+HVX+Tensor)
In comparison, the dual APU of the Mediatek Helio G90t is rated at 1TOPs total performance
5G Modem
The big selling point of the new Qualcomm chipset is the fact they are the first mid-range chipset to launch with an integrated 5G modem with the Snapdragon X52. This, therefore, means Qualcomm is going all-in with 5G for 2020, while the SD865 doesn’t have an integrated 5G modem, it will only be shipped with the X55 external modem.
The Mediatek Helio G90t and Kirin 810 are LTE only.
Antutu Benchmarks
Leaked benchmarks have been released showing moderate gains from the previous generation and putting Qualcomm back in the top spot for upper mid-range chipsets.
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So how much do those numbers differ from the Snapdragon 730G and Mediatek Helio G90T?
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The numbers stated by Qualcomm seem relatively accurate with a 29% performance bump with the GPU and 17% overall. However, the CPU has barely seen any improvement, and the improvement is less impressive when you compare it to the Mediatek Helio G90T.
Specification Comparison Table
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