Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5675 TFLOPS vs 0.3244 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2450MHz vs 2200MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 11nm)