MediaTek Helio P65 Advantages
Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Apple A9 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0787 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 13.41GB/s)