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Which chip does your 6s(6s+) have?

App says my 128GB 6S is TSMC, but that's inconsistent with the idea that the 6S is Samsung and the 6S Plus is TSMC. Unless that's wrong.

Oh well, off the app goes and I don't think it really matters.
 
Silver Idaten said:
App says my 128GB 6S is TSMC, but that's inconsistent with the idea that the 6S is Samsung and the 6S Plus is TSMC. Unless that's wrong.

Oh well, off the app goes and I don't think it really matters.
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My understating is the Samsung will give you better battery life, and the TSMC will give you more speed. Not sure either would be noticble
 
iPhone 6s Plus 64 GB silver TSMC. My guess is neither matter otherwise Apple would have only used one.
 
I'd be curious which my phone has, but until there's a way other than installing an administrator profile on my phone, no way.
 
Unless it comes from the app store the folks running this program are just asking for trouble. It clearly shows you how hard up some folks are to figure out which chipset their phone is running to the point they would rather compromise their personal information getting out.
 
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Wise87 said:
Unless it comes from the app store the folks running this program are just asking for trouble. It clearly shows you how hard up some folks are to figure out which chipset their phone is running to the point they would rather compromise their personal information getting out.
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Indeed, I will be leaving that one..
 
If you're worried wipe your phone first. Samsung here. I figured since the battery is lasting a good while.
 
Bhs1975 said:
If you're worried wipe your phone first. Samsung here. I figured since the battery is lasting a good while.
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Ok. This has to stop. NO ONE KNOWS if there's ANY difference in power consumption between the chips. If there is, it sure as heck won't be noticeable by the average person. Can you imagine the crap if Apple used two chips where one ran for 10 hours of use and the other ran for 7? Both parts met Apple's QA and testing requirements for the phone. I would be absolutely amazed if there was more than a 2% difference either way between the two devices. People need to chill out.

Also, everyone is automatically assuming that the Samsung would be the 'better' of the two chips...you have no way of knowing that at this point. It's pure speculation, and while the smaller process might lead to lower power usage, it isn't guaranteed if TMSC's process is more mature. Use your phone and move on.
 
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I'd totally run this app if they offered the source and I could look over it and compile it in Xcode on my own machine. Otherwise? No thank you Chinese malware…
 
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Jman13 said:
Ok. This has to stop. NO ONE KNOWS if there's ANY difference in power consumption between the chips. If there is, it sure as heck won't be noticeable by the average person. Can you imagine the crap if Apple used two chips where one ran for 10 hours of use and the other ran for 7? Both parts met Apple's QA and testing requirements for the phone. I would be absolutely amazed if there was more than a 2% difference either way between the two devices. People need to chill out.

Also, everyone is automatically assuming that the Samsung would be the 'better' of the two chips...you have no way of knowing that at this point. It's pure speculation, and while the smaller process might lead to lower power usage, it isn't guaranteed if TMSC's process is more mature. Use your phone and move on.
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All else equal, a 14nm chip will consume less power and generate less heat than one built on a 16nm process.

Radios and display probably consume the most power though, so perhaps not a big deal
 
terraphantm said:
All else equal, a 14nm chip will consume less power and generate less heat than one built on a 16nm process.

Radios and display probably consume the most power though, so perhaps not a big deal
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Of course...but we don't know if all else is equal. From what I've read, TMSC's 16mm process is quite mature.
 
I downloaded the app and it said it was a Samsung...

on my iPhone 6.
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BlueGoldAce said:
Samsung is 14nm, and TSMC is 16nm. Theoretically, the Samsung should hold in edge in battery life, performance, heat, etc.

http://demo.hiraku.tw/CPUIdentifier/

The above site will tell you which chip you have (some other member posted this in a frontage thread).

Personally:

Silver 64gb iPhone 6s Plus: TSMC chip.

Andantech explains it better:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9665/apples-a9-soc-is-dual-sourced-from-samsung-tsmc

Based on what andantech says, we have to assume either the above "CPU identifier site" is a software based identification method, or total BS.
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Just picked up a 6s+ 128gb space grey. TSMC.

Until someone does a side by side and verifies more than 1% difference, who cares. There's no way apple would do this if it meant randomly differing performance.
 
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