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

Did geekbench always cost $1 or is that just because every apple tech horny wants to run a battery test on their tsmc/samsung A9 and Primate Labs want to capitalize on the hoopla? No issues, just wondering?
 
... and other tests on Reddit are showing the opposite, that the Samsung has better battery life.

It's either all just random noise, or there are serious QC issues on the batteries (independent of chip).

Maybe there are two different battery manufacturers. Cue "batterygate".
 
Looks like I got the good chip.
 

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HiFiGuy528 said:
Looks like I got the good chip.
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Yes, but did you get a good battery?

The differences between the two phones in this article simply cannot be attributable to CPU differences alone. It looks like there is a wild difference in the real-world capacity of their batteries.
 
This observation lacks any bit of rigor or statistical significance, but I was looking through some comments on another site, and it seemed like perhaps, maybe, the phone color is correlated with the chip inside. For example, it seemed, based on a tiny handful of data points, that gray and pink tend to be Samsung, and silver tends to be TSMC (like my 6S+ as well - silver TSMC). Would be interesting to know if there is statistical significance here in a larger set of points. If the correlation is real, it would allow someone to improve their chances at a TSMC, by choosing a particular color. The correlation would make sense, as the components are presumably sourced in huge batches, and not put in a hat and shaken around like raffle tickets.
 
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This observation lacks any bit of rigor or statistical significance, but I was looking through some comments on another site, and it seemed like perhaps, maybe, the phone color is correlated with the chip inside. For example, it seemed, based on a tiny handful of data points, that gray and pink tend to be Samsung, and silver tends to be TSMC (like my 6S+ as well - silver TSMC). Would be interesting to know if there is statistical significance here in a larger set of points. If the correlation is real, it would allow someone to improve their chances at a TSMC, by choosing a particular color. The correlation would make sense, as the components are presumably sourced in huge batches, and not put in a hat and shaken around like raffle tickets.
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Nope. My Space Grey 6s+ is TSMC.
 
BeanieMan said:
This observation lacks any bit of rigor or statistical significance, but I was looking through some comments on another site, and it seemed like perhaps, maybe, the phone color is correlated with the chip inside. For example, it seemed, based on a tiny handful of data points, that gray and pink tend to be Samsung, and silver tends to be TSMC (like my 6S+ as well - silver TSMC). Would be interesting to know if there is statistical significance here in a larger set of points. If the correlation is real, it would allow someone to improve their chances at a TSMC, by choosing a particular color. The correlation would make sense, as the components are presumably sourced in huge batches, and not put in a hat and shaken around like raffle tickets.
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Nope. My Space Grey 6s+ is TSMC.
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And mine is pink 6s+ Tsmc. Man that was debunked before it even got started.
 
based on the youtube vids mentioned above ^, looks like the 16nm process has up to a 10% increase in battery life in real world usage
 
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What are the chances that Samsung designed its version of the chip to *intentionally* consume battery power more quickly? After all, Samsung has reasons to want its own Android phones to have better battery life than Apple's phones.

Something seems fishy!

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Are you serious?

You don't think Apple has spent hundreds of thousands of man hours getting the two different chips to be as close to identical as possible?

Why would Samsung risk this when they're making billions of $ from chip sales to Apple?

This article is unsubstantiated BS.

Unless you can somehow ensure that all processes running on both test phones were identical and that the batteries were identical, this test means nothing.
 
For a phone that's nearly a grand it's a shame that you cannot see what chip the iPhone 6S and 6S+ is using before buying it. Hopefully Apple see this problem and start using the TMSC chip in all models but I doubt it.
 
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In order to strictly place blame on the CPU architecture there needs to be real time performance monitoring of clock speeds, and memory bandwidth while any "reference" battery test is being ran to see how the different CPU's are throttling while handling the OS code. (Apple is probably working on this as we speak). A patch with new OS CPU instruction sets could level out the cpu power consumption if that is the only determining difference. Just tap your heels together 3 times, and say "i love my tsmc" and this thread will be erased from your memory.
 
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And mine is pink 6s+ Tsmc. Man that was debunked before it even got started.
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Yeah, I saw in the videos that the Austin guy had identical color phones with different processors. Not definitive proof against a correlation, but definitely casts strong doubt on any significant correlation.

Anyway, I'm just happy that I can go 3-4 days on one charge.
 
I have the Samsung processor on my iPhone 6S+ and the battery life is absolutely awful compared to my iPhone 6 Plus.
 
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I'm finding this really interesting, if you want to find out what's eating your battery then look in setting >battery. It's likely tha your battery is being eaten by photos sorting itself out or the like. Processor speed is a different matter, but there needs to be a proper statistical analysis to make any real judgement.
 
Well, having the way to check what kind of CPU you have - after the fact you ALREADY bought not very helpful

I would love to have the way to check CPU manufacturer before buying new iPhone
 
I am actually kind of annoyed at myself for checking which I have as it should not matter. At the end of the day if Apple really were to have such a variance then they'd be getting into trouble.
 
Just a question... Is the maker iClarified in any way linked to this video/shots of battery discrepancies causing all the drama?
 
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