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

I am throughly surprised at the difference. I thought if anything the Samsung chip would be more power efficient since it's 14nm versus 16nm.

I guess size isn't everything. I wonder if this is why 6s Pluses were more prone to have the Samsung A9s because they have a bigger battery, and more 6s had TSMC chips. Glad I got a TSMC 6s Plus.
 
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What they should do is run the test on the TSMC chip phone, pull the battery and put it in the Samsung chip phone and run it again. There is a possibility the battery in the samsung chipped phone isn't up to par with the other device.
 
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So I guess the only solution for some of you is the return your phone to the Apple store, open a brand new one in store, set it all up then install the app to check the chip #. Repeat until you get a TSMC one.

It's a very reasonable thing to do. I'm sure they'll understand and it will go over very well...
 
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Wow. So it's luck of drawer as to whether you get a faster or (very slightly) slower phone?! Can see lots of people retuning devices just for having Samsung chips. It's like the 2012 15" rMBP, people were able to get the screen swapped purely because it was LG (and had ghosting issues)!

Ps. I had an LG screen with ghosting, Apple replaced it with another LG panel by ghosting hasn't been an issue since.
 
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I have the TSMC as well, and here I thought Samsung 14nm chip would be better.

Honestly though, the difference cannot be 2 hours. There must be some background apps running on the other Samsung version.
 
I have the TSMC chip in my 6s Plus. My battery life is significantly worse than my 6 Plus with the same settings and usage. I get around 8 to 9 hours of usage time on the 6s Plus. I would typically get 11 to 13 hours of usage time on the 6 Plus. Others in the forum are showing much better battery life on their 6s Plus than I'm getting. I make no conclusions about the chip, but I'm going to exchange and see if a replacement has a better battery.
 
Hey, I know I returned my 6S last week for a samsung chipped one, can I please swap my samsung one for a TSMC one this time?

No you may not

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE, I'M GONNA POST THIS ON THE INTERNET!
 
ghost187 said:
I have the TSMC as well, and here I thought Samsung 14nm chip would be better.

Honestly though, the difference cannot be 2 hours. There must be some background apps running on the other Samsung version.
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Apps cannot run in the background on iOS. They are suspended in RAM, but don't use the CPU/GPU. Some apps can keep running some stuff in background, but that's limited to 15 mins MAX.
 
back to stats course 101....
lets ALLLLL assume obtain significant results when n=1 from the population.
 
Oh boy....
 

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My problem with the screen grabs in the article is that the phone performing worst doesn't have a SIM installed, so perhaps it's spending more time and energy searching for a network than the other. Need some conclusive tests to account for simple variables.
 
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