Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 Advantages
More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.2432 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 17GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2800MHz)