Huawei might have lost the race for the first 7 nm smartphone SoC to Apple, but the Chinese company claims that its upcoming Kirin 980 that should be launched in mid-October is faster than the A12 Bionic from Apple. According to Huawei, the new Kirin 980 will be 75% faster and 57% more energy efficient than the 970 model, while the A.I. capabilities have been expanded.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-says-the-Kirin-980-SoC-is-faster-than-Apple-s-A12-Bionic.334296.0.html
Notably absent is where the company says faster in what. Certainly not single threaded CPU performance, as it'll no doubt still be behind by about half there. And I don't really believe it'll leapfrog A12 on GPU performance either given the cheating they were found doing, after which the performance was far from peachy.
Google Anandtech Huawei Cheating.