Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2000MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)
Released 2 years and 10 months late