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No, it was shown they were equal and only the anime showed his Susanoo as being stronger which was false to the manga. Also the majority of his fights with Madara were not shown either way. So one way or another he survived and countered every attack Madara had each time and only tied as Edo tensei's as before hand Hashirama won each time.