MediaTek Helio G85: Game on!

Ishaan Bakshi
3 min readDec 1, 2020

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MediaTek has till now launched seven of its Helio Gseries chipsets that are specifically designed to deliver a fine gaming experience for the mid-ranger and budget smartphones. The MediaTek Helio Gseries chipset family has been making up a storm at the gaming market with its rapid sensing touchscreens and vibrant visuals, making for a rich and realistic gameplay in keeping with the brand’s price-reliability and adherence to great technology. The Taiwanese giant is known to make affordable technology for the masses while constantly upgrading and improving their products. In its G series chipsets, MediaTek has integrated their in-house gaming technology for one of the finest gaming experiences in budget smartphones.

The MediaTek Helio G85 chipset is built on the 12nm fabrication and comes integrated with a combination of two Cortex-A75 cores clocked at up to 2GHz and six Cortex-A55 cores clocked at up to 1.8GHz for efficient multitasking. A lot of the specifications of the Helio G85 is similar to its predecessor the Helio G80 like possessing similar CPU configuration with two ARM Cortex-A75 at 2.0GHz and six 1.8GHz A-55 Cortex. Smartphones powered by them are Xiaomi Redmi Note 9, Xiaomi Redmi 10X, Xiaomi Redmi 9, Realme 6i, Realme Narzo 10. But the most important highlight of the Helio G85 is definitely the GPU. The Helio G85 possesses an ARM Mali G52 GPU which can pump up to 1GHz for breakthrough performance to fulfill full-on gaming needs of avid mobile gamers. The Helio G85 supports RAM of up to 8GB of RAM. Diving deeper, the Helio G85 chipset has support for category-7 4G LTE, Dual 4G VoLTE, VoWi-Fi, Full HD+ display with 60Hz refresh rate, Bluetooth 5.0, FM Radio and 802.11ac. In terms of camera features and support, The Helio G85 is perfectly capable of supporting up to two cameras with 16 MP + 16 MP sensors or a single 48 MP sensor. The chipset also boasts of AI power just like the Helio G80, which is to optimise the camera features embedded with AI like object recognition (Google Lens), Smart Photo Album, and scene detection etc.

MediaTek’s HyperEngine gaming technology boasts of providing eye-popping images and a lag-free run which makes the gaming experience smooth sailing. This technology is especially suited for tackling graphically challenging games like PUBG and Fortnite which can make even a very high-end device heat up fast. This is where MediaTek’s HyperEngime game technology delivers without taking a toll on the phone’s battery life and performance. The MediaTek HyperEngine technology uses artificial intelligence to consistently deliver a smooth gameplay experience while managing the phone’s resources. This technology is also the one major USP of MediaTek that makes it stand apart from the crowd with its smart game solutions making the processors more than capable of providing a very dependable gaming experience on budget smartphones.

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Ishaan Bakshi
Ishaan Bakshi

Written by Ishaan Bakshi

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