Most phone comparisons start with a spreadsheet. That is the wrong end. A phone is a thing you hold for four hours a day for three years, and the specification that matters is whichever one you would notice if it were missing.
So start with your hands. A 6.7-inch phone is a two-handed phone for most people; a 6.1-inch one is not. No processor makes up for a device you resent reaching into your pocket for.
Then battery, then camera, then everything else. A phone that lasts a full day without a top-up changes how you use it more than any chip does. A camera you trust after dark is the difference between taking the photo and deciding not to bother.
The chip comes last, and this is the part people find hardest to accept. Every flagship processor of the last three years is faster than the thing you actually do with it. The honest question is not how fast it is today, but how many years of updates the maker has promised — five is now normal, three is a device with an expiry date.
When two phones survive all of that, buy the cheaper one and spend the difference on a case and a charger that will not cook the battery. That is not a compromise. That is the upgrade.