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Apple already solved that problem via its hiring practices.
hehehe.
Apple already solved that problem via its hiring practices.
I linked to an article that sources Apple as saying that the real-world performance difference comes down to 2-3%
hehehe.
You laugh but if Anand was still around by Monday we would have the EXACT percentage of difference in battery life, plus some throttling difference that only he would have the fortitude to discover.
Without him or Brian on the scene the mobile market is like a wild west town that doesn't have a sheriff.
That 2-3% from Apple can't be read as a fact but as PR, they have a conflict of interest and as such they have no say, otherwise why even review phones, let's just watch keynotes and ads and decide form that.
There are 2-3% tolerances even in battery capacity. That number is just pointless.
2 hours difference out of how many hours? Surely it is not 2~3%? I suppose this is why Apple had avoided mixing chips until the 6s.
And if you're not going to trust them on this, I'd definitely suggest not using their finger-print scanner as they might be lying about that or other security features. Hell you can't reasonably trust any company about anything then as it's all just PR.
Do you have a good reason that you don't believe Apple? Hell, the person who posted the initial 2 hour difference could have been lying as well. How do you know that's the truth?
But given that they're selling more and more devices and that they tend to make their SoCs some of the largest on the market, it's not a surprise that they need to source from multiple vendors at some point.
All this started based on complains that under load certain SoC is significantly less efficient. Apple "rebuttal" does not address that and because of that it looks even more like damage control PR.
Sure, the iPhone got so big that it's impossible to source from one vendor. With that said if Steve Jobs was still alive the Samsung one would have had a 5-10% bigger battery so no one would have found out the secret.
Sure, the iPhone got so big that it's impossible to source from one vendor. With that said if Steve Jobs was still alive the Samsung one would have had a 5-10% bigger battery so no one would have found out the secret.
I'm willing to bet if you took 50 iPhones all from either TSMC or Samsung, you'd be able to find at least one pair that have a similarly high performance gap as did the tested devices that started this whole mess.
If you look at overclocking threads you'll find the same thing. Some chips perform a lot better than others, and they're from the same manufacturer.
Also, does it really matter if TSMC can run GeekBench3 for an extra ~10-20% longer if no one does that? Sure Apple gets to pick their own definition for "Average User" to mean whatever looks best for them, but if in typical performance cases you only see a 3% difference, does it matter if someone can demonstrate an extreme benchmark that makes one come out better than the other?
The issue I'd be more concerned with are the reports of some iPhones overheating or the home button becoming overly warm to the touch. That has more of a tangible impact to end users than a small difference in battery life.
It's up to Apples quality control to eliminate those 2 iPhones not the costumers, so you are basically betting on Apples bad QC.
I hope my 6S coming isn't a samsung :O
Does anyone know what Geekbench battery test actually test?
The GeekBench test runs parts of the GeekBench CPU benchmark in a loop, making sure to do a fixed amount of work per time interval while idling the rest of the time, and using the score result as a modifier for the runtime score. This makes the GeekBench battery life benchmark primarily a SoC/CPU/Memory benchmark, and that in turn has repercussions for interpreting the data.
I did not know there was an AT article. Thank you, Ns1.
WordYou laugh but if Anand was still around by Monday we would have the EXACT percentage of difference in battery life, plus some throttling difference that only he would have the fortitude to discover.
Without him or Brian on the scene the mobile market is like a wild west town that doesn't have a sheriff.