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He says they did testing with a sample size of 1. Seems that is hardly conclusive.
Not to mention Apple probably sent them cherry picked iPhones to save their asses, the best Samsung and worst TSMC they could find. And I love how Geekbench 3 tests were not performed in combo with their conclusion that Samsung is the better performer, rofl.
 
I've been saying for the last couple of weeks that this is a complete non-issue, and that people are blowing things way out of proportion, however I just got my 6S this morning, and have to admit that I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw it was a TSMC chip.

I guess guy makes me a sellout/hypocrite!
 
Just got my new 6S+.

TSMC?
 

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I've been saying for the last couple of weeks that this is a complete non-issue, and that people are blowing things way out of proportion, however I just got my 6S this morning, and have to admit that I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw it was a TSMC chip.

I guess guy makes me a sellout/hypocrite!

Not at all. You just became an unwitting victim of groupthink/the hive mind. :)
 
He says they did testing with a sample size of 1. Seems that is hardly conclusive.

Not to mention Apple probably sent them cherry picked iPhones to save their asses, the best Samsung and worst TSMC they could find. And I love how Geekbench 3 tests were not performed in combo with their conclusion that Samsung is the better performer, rofl.

So we have the Samsung performing better on GPU intensive task, TSMC performing better in whatever cycle Geekbench does and they both perform about the same on everyday task.

I don't know, Geekbench seems to be the outlier here makes you wonder.
 
So glad I got a Samsung chip in mine as I play a fair few 3D games. I need those extra 16min of game time :cool:
 

by far this is the most thorough test so far with a good selection of benchmarks, as they seem to follow the same lines as every other benchmark I've seen so far I thought it might help settle the fact that both phones seem about the same and maybe people should just enjoy their new expensive phone but guess not, guess it's got to be a conspiracy :p

personally to me that geekbench battery test has a few bizarre results in the charts, as previously mentioned the Galaxy S6 is way higher then it should be with it's pretty poor battery life which throws into question how representative of real world use the test is , it would be interesting to find out what's going on with it.

So hands down, what's the verdict? Which one is the better chip?

so far every benchmark except one seems to show they are more or less identical. I would guess which is better depends more on the silicon lottery then anything else if I had to make a conclusion so far :)
 
This reminds me of when the Galaxy S6 came out, it was discovered that there were two different camera sensors - one by Samsung, and one by Sony. People compared for a bit and in the end it became a non-issue.

This too will be a non-issue.
 
iPhone 6S Plus, 64GB Silver, TSMC, purchased from Apple.com in the UK.

Manufactured in Week 40 shipped from Shenzhen.
 

Test Battery Both Chip A9 TSMC vs Samsung => Both same same :)

now that's something, great post! :), it would be pretty amusing if there actually turns out to be no difference between the two other then whatever is going on in the geekbench battery test. 1% is well within normal manufacturing variance. after all these threads and people returning their phone :p
 
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