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TSMC's A9 Chip Outperforming Samsung's in Early iPhone 6s Battery Benchmarks

I can vouch for the poor battery performance with a Samsung chip. Today I dropped 4% battery while checking email, in literally 6-7 minutes. Last night I scrolled through 2 photo galleries quickly, each containing less that 40 pictures, connected to wifi and dropped 9%. Screen brightness at about 1/3, no push notifications, etc, etc.

Anyone else have the issue where your music doesn't load, or take a minute? I have apple music turned off. When I touch the music app, its just a white screen and the scrolly goes around and around at the top of the screen.

Also phone randomly freezes, sometimes touch ID is very fast, sometimes very slow.

Started clean, currently restoring.

Model: A1688 Sprint (CDMA)
chip: N71AP (samsunged)
 
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Enygmatic said:
Some sites' commenters seem to be fixated on the fact that one phone has a Rogers SIM, while the other is SIM-less...

I say "meh"...
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People are too fixated on these two images instead of looking at all the results that are available now.
 
doboy said:
I think you should recall your comment based on this small (N=1) sampling.
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I don't know what sample size it will take to say that this is real or not, but I figure with the news going around that a lot of people are going to do this test. The sample size was at least 22 by the time you posted, and by the end of the week we'll know a lot more one way or the other.

The results distribution of the current 22 isn't showing a nice smooth bell curve for battery life, like you'd expect if all things were equal and you had normal variation. Instead, the results are showing two distinct groups with wide separation between them, one having longer battery life than the other.

Again, I don't know if 22 is enough, but so far it certainly looks like something is going on.
 
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I think I'll hold off updating to the 6S until this blows over, or one chip is determined to be way better than the other.
/sarcasm
 
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TSMC marketing has been learning from Samsung and is behind this '-gate'?
 
huntnboy04 said:
I can vouch for the poor battery performance with a Samsung chip. Today I dropped 4% battery while checking email, in literally 6-7 minutes. Last night I scrolled through 2 photo galleries quickly, each containing less that 40 pictures, connected to wifi and dropped 9%.
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Even assuming that there is some truth to the Samsung having worse battery life, it's nowhere near as bad as the problem you are experiencing. To me it sounds like a runaway process (which would be fixed by your clean/restore), or outright faulty hardware.
 
People should start adding the model number of your iPhone 6S/plus to this. I got the iPhone 6S and 6S+ both for Tmobile Model A1688 (GSM) and Model A1687 (GSM) for the Plus and they came with samsung chip.

While my friend got a 6S+ the ATT version with Band 30 Model A1634 and his came with a TSMC chip.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/

This maybe this has something to do with what chip you get. Not color or size.
 
Well if true, Apple can finally ditch Samsung and put another nail in their coffin. Samsung profits were up only because of chip manufacturing this last quarter.
 
Absolutely the TSMC is better than SAMSUNG in the manufacturing process and technique.

What ever 14nm between 16nm , the leakage current control is important issue of semiconductor processing.



SAMSUNG 14nm technique-> FinFET LPE(lower power Consume)

TSMC 16nm technique->FinFET+(better performance)


But in this case ,TSMC is better than SAMSUNG in the power Consume....

I think SAMSUNG should to explain this issue...
 
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I've been happy with my 6S battery life (samsung chip). This was yesterday:
 

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Why hasn't someone else posted a better comparison video with both of these chips, surely there is a tech reviewer that has 2 iPhone 6s that have both of these chips and can show if this story really has any merit.
 
bbplayer5 said:
Wow, that escalated quickly - this will not look good for Samsung.

I have the "Good" model, and I have never seen a reboot, lockup, or anything and my battery is insane.
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The "problem" is that in reality it will not look good for Apple. The average guy doesn't care who makes the chips, just as with any other smartphones the majority of users have no idea who builds the components.
 
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