Does It Matter Which Chip Your iPhone 6s Has?

Should you care about which manufacturer made the A9 chip inside of your iPhone 6s? Jon made a video discussing the controversy.

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[MacDaddyDev]

I've actually heard that the Samsung chip is more powerful, but it's the one that drains the battery whereas the TSMC chip is slightly weaker and offers better battery life.

Either way, the average consumer wouldn't really care, whereas the power user may get ever so slightly annoyed because they're nitpicky.

[KellyT]

Mine has the Samsung and I have no complaints. Much better than my old iPhone 5.

[matthewfornek]

Chip-gate is really blown out of proportion. Honestly people are just looking for something wrong with the iPhone. Its as Jon said really nothing to worry about since you really won't see a difference between the two (TSMC and Samsung) chips in normal usage as well as heavy usage.

[andymangaka]

Just remember TSMC is responsible for that overheating chips in snapdragon 810 and the Apple A8(the only non-samsung, in iphone 6, wich gets too hot)

[marxman]

You say it doesn't matter what chip we get but some of us don't have 50 phone chargers and 30 phones at a time to test, we got 1 phone, usually 1 charger, and no outlets in public, your life is literally based on phones so you are always prepped in ways we can't be +TechnoBuffalo

[thatgeekdad]

I believe it is bad journalism to just use two sites and the OEM's statement without doing your own due diligence with your own devices. There were also other sites and respected youtubers who performed real world tests with control parameters that got a much bigger difference than Ars and Apple's statement. So if there are more sites (including youtubers as well) who have a different number that Ars and Apple but whose numbers are closer with each others, then maybe something is a miss.

Even with statement of 2 to 3 percent, it still shows another complete design and engineering flaw for Apple, who should take the full blame as this is their finished products.

[nitsugazemag]

Disappointing that they didn't stick to just one manufacturer for their processor chip. However, it is negligible to the common consumer as to where heavy multitasking and strenuous game playing won't be the normal use for most. Ideally, we want a phone to last and last but little percentage disparage isn't anything to go nuts for.

[Evil_Gianni]

Finally a good video that address everything and not riding the hype wave like unboxtherapy and others, but good video Jon!!

[clemmmgx]

Thanks so much for this video. I was really concerned after so many sites aggravate this issue.

[bryantauro]

Hell with the chip am glad to hear john back!!!!

[zircoben]

"Geekbench doesn't reflect real world usage." Well of course, it's a benchmark.

But it DOES show how well a CPU can handle a workload, which is the basis of real world usage. The difference of course is minimal, but don't discount Geekbench because it's a benchmark.

[JackJacko]

i got my i phone 6s a week ago, and thought without knowing this, that the performance and battery life was somewhat exaclty the same or even a bit better then last years modal iPhone 6. i looked up what chip was in my phone and it was the samsung one. the designs of the A9 chip are the same even if there was two companys that produced it. just my thoughts :)

[justafrind]

wtf is this thing every time online people coms up with a new stupid trend

[JCclse]

Many people are saying there's no difference in the real world, but there is. I hate to say it Jon, but other Youtubers have tested it (eg. Jonathan Morrison) and saw quite a significant difference, not quite Geekbench difference, but certainly not 2-3% as Apple claimed. I know you're trying to protect Apple, but the truth is the truth, sadly. That said, if your one is the Samsung one and you're happy with the battery life, there's no need to exchange it; if not happy, exchange it until you have a TSMC one, Apple decided to include 2 sizes of CPU, they can't really blame people for exchanging.

[TechYourNeeds]

It doesn't matter as long it works. Like you said John is one test. Plus the average consumer it doesn't going to know. For the geek it might drive them crazy.

[Gari.Hughes]

Thanks for this video. I have the Samsung chip in mine and was a bit annoyed. This gives me some reassurance.

[clouds]

It's hilarious how people now call it a TSMC iphone and especially the Samsung iphone 6S :D
As a person that really cares about battery life I would totally ask for a TSMC chip if I were to buy a 6S (I don't buy apple products).

[AdarshRaj]

In the case of Intel, they were saying more battery life when they moved from 32 to 22 and then from 22 to 14nm. So in this case 14nm processing should've produced more battery life than the 16nm. Why it doesn't happened so ?

[evenzeroescanbeheroes]

it is unknown if a Snapdragon chip would work right in an iPhone so yea i think it should matter. another point is that you should get what you pay for

[colevano]

Chipgate is the stupidest thing ever, like HOW do people even find out about this stuff???
It really just sounds to me like people who don't like Apple having a "smooth" product launch are just making a big deal about such a small thing