MediaTek Helio G96 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (17.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Released 6 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3244 TFLOPS vs 0.243 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 2050MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (11nm vs 12nm)