Mobile brands are getting there hands on their own SOC Samsung's got exynos and hawaei got the hisilcon kirin a lately xaiomi has also joined the group of smartphone manfacturer having their own chip
  The Surge 1 is an Octacore processor with following configuration
1) 4 Cortex A53 clocked at 2.2Ghz
2) 4 Cortex A53 clocked at 1.4Ghz

 As of GPU xaiomi has selected medaitek's Mali T860 which is a quad core processor for handling graphical performance all this is based on 28 nanometer process

  The processor has and inbuilt 32 bit DSP:-digital signal processing for faster and less power efficient processing and 14bit ISP:-Image stabilisation processor for better images processing.As per benchmark surge 1 takes over snapdragon 625 and Helio P20 with an antutu score of 64,817

Right now the processer may not have any extra ordinary addition to available processor but it's first step toward independent processor but the benefits that the company could have is reduced cost in production increasing profit

 As per availability the processor has been introduced through Mi5c right now but could feature in xaiomi upcoming budget smartphones.