MediaTek
MediaTek Helio G85
The budget 4G chip that would not quit: two Cortex-A75 cores and a Mali-G52 on 12nm, shipped in the Redmi 9, Realme Narzo and a hundred others - and still being designed into new ultra-budget phones years later.
Pros
- Astonishing market longevity
- Cheap and thermally boring
- HyperEngine game tuning helped its class
Cons
- 12nm process ancient by 2026
- Slow storage and LPDDR4X pairings
- Mali-G52 MC2 entry GPU
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the MediaTek Helio G85
General
- Announced
- 2020
- Process
- 12 nm
- TDP (typical)
- 5 W
- Architecture
- Armv8.2
CPU
- Cores
- 8
- Core configuration
- 2x2.0 GHz Cortex-A75 + 6x1.8 GHz Cortex-A55
- Max clock
- 2 GHz
GPU
- GPU
- Arm Mali-G52 MC2
Memory
- Memory type
- LPDDR4X-1800
- Max bandwidth
- 14.4 GB/s
Connectivity
- Modem
- Integrated LTE Cat-7
- Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi 5
- Bluetooth
- 5.0
Media
- Max display
- FHD+ @ 60Hz
- Video capture
- 2K@30fps
Benchmarks
- AnTuTu 10
- 270,000Top 86%
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 420Top 84%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 1,350Top 87%
Quick answers
Is the MediaTek Helio G85 good in 2026?
The MediaTek Helio G85 earns an Inno Score of 26.2/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The budget 4G chip that would not quit: two Cortex-A75 cores and a Mali-G52 on 12nm, shipped in the Redmi 9, Realme Narzo and a hundred others - and still being designed into new ultra-budget phones years later.
What is the MediaTek Helio G85 AnTuTu score?
The MediaTek Helio G85 scores 270,000 points in AnTuTu 10. In Geekbench 6 it reaches 420 single-core and 1,350 multi-core.
What are the key specs of the MediaTek Helio G85?
Cores: 8 · Process: 12 nm · AnTuTu 10: 270,000 · GPU: Arm Mali-G52 MC2
What are the closest alternatives to the MediaTek Helio G85?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Qualcomm Snapdragon 439, Qualcomm Snapdragon 450, Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.