While the distribution of Geekbench scores for the device on iOS 10.2, iOS 10.2.1, and iOS 11.1.2 appear identical, the results change with iOS 11.2 and start to resemble the iPhone 6s' degraded ...

This is about 35% higher than what a typical iPhone 6s unit reports. The GeekBench report identifies the device as an iPhone9,3 – suggesting at least 3 different variants of the device.

The iPhone 6S tested by Geekbench's John Poole in iOS 11.2.0. John Poole (Geekbench) The introduction of this behavior in iOS 10.2.1 might have been a coincidence, though nothing is currently certain.

Last week we reported on the news that a new battery could solve performance issues with older iPhone models like the 6s. Today, Geekbench founder, John Poole, published an article describing his ...

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Benchmarking I've done via Geekbench 3 on my iPhone 6S Plus show a big jump in performance over the last-gen iPhone 6 Plus, which uses the older A8 chip. Comparing the new 6S Plus with the older 6 ...

The device is identified as an "iPhone9,3", which may refer to a third model of iPhone 7, given that the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus carry the hardware strings "iPhone8,1" and "iPhone8,2", respectively.

The iPhone 6s scored 2511 in single-core mode and 4404 in multi-core mode in Geekbench, putting it just behind the processing power of the Galaxy S6, which scored 4438 points.

A prototype of the iPhone 6s has been spotted on Geekbench 3, which reveals that the smartphone will house 2GB of RAM and a tri-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz.

The iPhone 6s debuted in September 2015, which means the first update to show evidence of this pattern -- 10.2.1 -- dropped about 16 months into its life cycle.