Apple A9 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.243 TFLOPS )
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
MediaTek Dimensity 700 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (17.07GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)
Released 5 years and 2 months late