iPhone 6s: Samsung and TSMC A9 chips yield different battery life

08 October, 2015
The Samsung-made chip depletes the battery up to 33% faster in consecutive GeekBench runs, real-life difference much smaller.

Sort by:

  • D
  • AnonD-430787
  • utY
  • 08 Oct 2015

Nathillien, 08 Oct 2015Faster CPU will spend more power. ;)did you even see the video, boy ? TSMC was faster than sammysung.

    • N
    • Nathillien
    • u$f
    • 08 Oct 2015

    Faster CPU will spend more power. ;)

      • D
      • AnonD-430787
      • utY
      • 08 Oct 2015

      I really want this news to go main stream media..
      This will push apple to stop working with samsung..It will be fun seeing Samsung's financial report after that.

      AFAIK only division doing great in Samsung Electronics is chip division.

        • d
        • dieselpunk
        • E10
        • 08 Oct 2015

        Anonymous, 08 Oct 2015OMG! you are so ignorant, Samsung is the only company that ... morelol no

          • ?
          • Anonymous
          • vau
          • 08 Oct 2015

          I don't care I prefer Samsung chip in my iPhone than a Taiwanese chip. If battery was my worry then I will carry my powerbank, but my iPhone ( which is Samsung chip) is fine and having no problems! I love my iPhone 6S!

            • ?
            • Anonymous
            • 3rD
            • 08 Oct 2015

            Jonathan from TLD is the source of the information for this article. But I also saw a less popular youtubers who did geekbench and battery test but yielded different results. Batteries are in +/- 2% margin and the samsung chip even won in the geekbench test. So this "chipgate" thing is not as bad as you think.

              • ?
              • Anonymous
              • X}Q
              • 08 Oct 2015

              Sounds like a similar incident of Samsung using different camera sensor on their S6/edge/Note5/Edge+

                • a
                • anshule
                • pFU
                • 08 Oct 2015

                learn what chip binning is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                  • ?
                  • Anonymous
                  • Mtb
                  • 08 Oct 2015

                  AnonD-430787, 08 Oct 2015They are already having a failing handset business.. now if... moreOMG! you are so ignorant, Samsung is the only company that innovates and they are not doing only stupid chips and mobile phones they even do freaking oil platforms.
                  If they don't sell 60m Galaxy s6 per year this doesn't mean that the business is failing.
                  There you go. Enjoy.

                    • D
                    • AnonD-430787
                    • utY
                    • 08 Oct 2015

                    They are already having a failing handset business.. now if this news goes main stream.. they might even lose chip making business.. bad time to be a samsung fanboy.

                      • ?
                      • Anonymous
                      • 7t7
                      • 08 Oct 2015

                      Something fishy is going on.
                      Thnx you gsmarena for publishing this as it is real story.
                      Can you please test this on your iPhone 6s and plus models?
                      The more publicity the better to verify the differences these chipsets.

                        • D
                        • AnonD-166423
                        • pX7
                        • 08 Oct 2015

                        Either samsung did it in purpos >> or they just can't do it right >>