Jesus people, stop panicking over one poorly executed benchmark! ~10% difference in battery usage can be caused by number of different factors.
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Samsung and TSMC iPhone 6s Chips Show Smaller Real-World Battery Impacts Compared to Benchmarks
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How can you tell that the difference in real life is almost unnoticeable when in more than half the battery the difference is already 7%??
When the usage goes all the way down the difference should be 15-17% which represents at least 1h of usage.
This is not acceptable for a device that costs 860€ (64GB 6S) here in Europe and specially when I pay the same as everyone else and I can have an iPhone that is not the same as others.
1h-1h30 of usage is a great deal and should not be taken lightly as you are trying to do, trying to cover Apple mistake.
This is one of the worst quality control situations in Apple history!!!
How can you tell that the difference in real life is almost unnoticeable when in more than half the battery the difference is already 7%??
When the usage goes all the way down the difference should be 15-17% which represents at least 1h of usage.
This is not acceptable for a device that costs 860€ (64GB 6S) here in Europe and specially when I pay the same as everyone else and I can have an iPhone that is not the same as others.
1h-1h30 of usage is a great deal and should not be taken lightly as you are trying to do, trying to cover Apple mistake.
This is one of the worst quality control situations in Apple history!!!
This article is clickbait at best. One other YouTube video showing different results does not a conclusion make, and even there, the battery difference is still worth raising an eyebrow over. I'd question the testing strategy of this second video, as it mostly tests video decoding. I think a mix of video, 3D graphics, and CPU computation would provide a better sense of how the chips fare under load. But moreover, there are natural variances from the batteries in phone to phone, so one test is essentially meaningless to draw either conclusion from.
So for those who just check email and messages prob won't notice any real world difference. For those that play games, watch movies, 4K will notice big time.
Yes you should be extremely worried! Like can't even sleep worried .
Lirum worked great to tell the model you have until they removed it today. I wonder why...
Specially I wonder why are you telling people to stay way from Lirum
Just thought I'd point this out. In the last article showing the parity between battery life tests, one of the phones had an Active SIM and the other phone had No SIM and did not have Airplane mode on, which made it drain more than it normally would have.
There have been a LOT of other tests beside this one in the images, you know. You guys keep focusing on these images like the differences can be explained by SIM card or screen brightness. There have been a lot of folks that have run the benchmark on their phone. If someone with a Samsung chipset ran it and was able to get a score in the same range as the TSMC chip, then we would know about it by now.
Well we know one thing, Samsung won't be making ads mocking this one
I'd like to have two iPhone 6S with the same specs with airplane mode on tested. I don't think its fair to test one with a SIM and one without. Even if both were on AT&T, each phone could have a different signal and cause battery drain differently. Airplane mode with WiFi and BT off is the only way to really test. Both screens on full bright or full dim. None of this, well I think its between 70-75%.
I think Apple should dump Samsung in a ditch.
Very happy with my iPhone 6 with its TSMC chip... so that's WHY iPhone 6's had so many people happy with batt life...
Very happy with my iPhone 6 with its TSMC chip... so that's WHY iPhone 6's had so many people happy with batt life...
No, but you can download it here and compile and run it yourself. https://github.com/hirakujira/CPU-Identifier (I would advise against using enterprise certificates to sideload apps.)
It is funny, on a slightly older thread there was many posters disappointed that their new iPhones did not have the Samsung chip.
Now it is the opposite. In wonder how long until we see another story saying the Samsung is performing better in some way, then we see another shift.
Now it is the opposite. In wonder how long until we see another story saying the Samsung is performing better in some way, then we see another shift.
wonder how these chips are allocated?
For example, would even UK stock also be mixed?
For example, would even UK stock also be mixed?
regardless I do not have the samsung chip in mine, so I am happy whether I notice the difference or not.
Did the render take the same amount of time on both devices? That's an important detail that is missing here.
Not sure how they came to this conclusion given these results. In my view, these results are consistent with the benchmark.
There is still a 12% difference between the two chipsets (taking the percent difference of 62 and 55 from the iMovie test). It isn't as significant as the 20%, but the iMovie test wasn't for the whole range of the battery, just some of it.
There still needs to be more data here. The most revealing thing in the study was that the Samsung iPhone 6s ran hotter during the battery benchmark test compared with the TSMC.
Is this the Plus? My Sammy 6S is only getting like 3:50min
No, only worry if your iPhone 6s has neither chip.
I'm curious if the ones that say this is "clickbait" know what chip they have?
I still don't know which one I have. I do know that my 6S is super fast and I get great battery life. Perhaps I will check one day, although, I am totally comfortable with whatever chip is in my phone.
Probably a TSMC, though. lol
I still don't know which one I have. I do know that my 6S is super fast and I get great battery life. Perhaps I will check one day, although, I am totally comfortable with whatever chip is in my phone.
Probably a TSMC, though. lol
Unless the TSMC chipset is not performing as much work as the Samsung one. I don't think anyone has really determined if that is the case or not. The Samsung chip gets hotter during the benchmark and that could be related to the design or it could be related to it performing more work than the other. It's hard to say exactly... I know that the Samsung chip takes up less area than the TSMC, so it could be that its the same power (in W) dissipated over different volumes and therefore the smaller volume gets hotter (power density thing).
