Samsung caught optimizing the Galaxy S4 for benchmarks

[John Patrick]

That should constitute a money back recall of every effected phone, under a penalty of false advertising. And then a notification of compliance or face a year cellular ban.

Ha Ha, except show the ad-copy containing any false claims

 

[John Patrick]

This website should run an update on the story the way that most others have. Benchmarks are not the only whitelisted apps. The GPU gets throttled from 532Mhz to 480Mhz under heavy load/duration as heat management. Benchmarks don't run long enough to create thermal issues, therefore get whitelisted to avoid throttling. End of story.

Derp...

 

[John Patrick]

How appropriate that this story comes out right about the time major league baseball is handing out suspensions for performance enhancing drugs. Turns out the S4 is also juiced.

How do I order some for my car?

Oh.. and don't miss one of the most important lines of the story..

Galaxy S4 i9500 - the model that features Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa chipset

[FONT=arial]That's the international model. So if you're in the US and own an S4 you don't have a phone that has been giving phony benchmark numbers.... The conclusion of Anandtech's article states. "None of this ultimately impacts us." and "The rest of our suite [meaning, benchmarks they actually use] isn?t impacted by the aggressive CPU governor and GPU frequency optimizations on the Exynos 5 Octa " [/FONT]

[FONT=arial]So check which model S4 you have if you're curious. (US models use the Snapdragon 600 quad core). Basically Samsung was caught cheating with a phone only some countries sell, in benchmarks that aren't heavily used.[/FONT]

But the article clearly states this also affects the Snapdragons as well? It puts all 4 cores into a high frequency mode.

The stories been updates. It's only the international version with the Exynos processor that's affected.