MediaTek Helio G96 Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.243 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 17.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2050MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)