Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2000MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)
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