“We noticed an odd thing while testing the Samsung Galaxy Note 3: it scores really, really well in benchmark tests—puzzlingly well, in fact,” Ron Amadeo reports for Ars Technica. “A quick comparison of its scores to the similarly-specced LG G2 makes it clear something fishy is going on, because Samsung’s 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 blows the doors off LG’s 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800. What makes one Snapdragon so different from the other?”
“After a good bit of sleuthing, we can confidently say Samsung appears to be artificially boosting the US Note 3’s benchmark scores with a special, high-power CPU mode that kicks in when the device runs a large number of popular benchmarking apps,” Amadeo reports. “Samsung did something similar with the international Galaxy S 4’s GPU, but this is the first time we’ve seen the boost on a US device.”
Amadeo reports, “We also found a way to disable this special CPU mode, so for the first time we can see just how much Samsung’s benchmark optimizations affect benchmark scores.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: For Samsung, no low is too low to stoop.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lexguy” for the heads up.]
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Are we surprised?
Er… No!
Yah but does it come it gold?
Give them a few weeks.
It’ll come in gold fake leather
Innovate my A•• Copy first then cheat. The customers will never know!
Same old Samsung.
In Asia, “corruption” is spelled Koreauption.
No, it’s spelled “Samsung”.
A move so low even Microsoft might think twice before making.
Do you honestly believe this?
Back in the early days, Microsoft optimized the hell out of
for i=1 to 1000
next i
Because they knew that would be the first benchmark people would run when they loaded (often from paper tape) their brand-spanking new Microsoft Basic interpreter on to their shiny new 8080 microcomputer they just built.
It was quite impressive how fast they executed empty FOR loops. I remember comparing Applesoft BASIC (MS) against Apple’s integer BASIC (on an Apple II). Applesoft blew integer basic away. Of course, once you put something into those FOR loops, the tables changed quite rapidly.
this makes it easier for me to persuade others not to buy anything from Samsung: they cheat their customers, here’s proof.
Boycott Samsung!!!
Um, how about turning-on the “special, high-power CPU mode” for all apps? Then, the results would be legitimate, and they could turn it off when not needed, to save battery.
That would be awesome…. If they turned it on for all apps I bet the battery doesn’t last 20 minutes… LoL
Now someone needs to release some malware that would infect only Samsung phones, crank up the CPU full-time, and watch the fun start.
They won’t, because very simple tests not even involving benchmarking apps could be used to show that battery life is greatly diminished, etc. Things that really matter to people when they buy a phone.
There will be the Android geeks who want to crow about how their Galaxy phone is faster than an iPhone or LG or Moto, but most people don’t care about benchmarking tests. Most people care about real world perceptions, but also things like battery life.
However, it is further evidence to show that Samsung will go to any lengths to win and sell its devices, regardless of the ethical s**t pile it lies in.
I wonder how the iHaters/Android Trolls will try and spin this as a positive thing.
They’ll tow Samsung’s company line that the files are for special apps like the camera and browser, and conveniently ignore the reality revealed.
You know, I bet your right. It’s crazy how the media doesn’t call them on this. Major Media News I mean.
What i would like to see is a giant, well publisized class action law suit against samsung for misleading consumers and fraudulant behavior .
Something that will expose this low life company wide open to the whole world !
Waste battery
US troops out of R.O.K. — South Korea — now !
What’s the point?
If this was Apple every TV channel, every newspaper would be featuring the story. But for Samsung you will not see it repeated anywhere. What is wrong with America, how come we do not support our own companies? Half the cars I see are Korean.
“Half of the cars I see are Korean”. Wow. Just which part of Cupertino do you visit? 😉
I personally think this is funny. Isn’t it funny when you think they are paying people to do this kind of stuff?
Funny
We also found a way to disable this special CPU mode
Caught red-handed CHEATING their customers.
SameScum again and again.
The Ugly: it takes MINUTES to open the Gallery app
Classy…
There is no honour amongst thieves.