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Samsung Again Caught Inflating Benchmarking Scores
« on: October 05, 2013, 12:07:36 am »
Samsung uses special code inside its operating system to identify benchmarking apps by name to boost CPU clock speeds and prevent CPU cores from entering low-power modes. As a result, Ars discovered, Galaxy Note 3 benchmarks report CPU performance roughly 20 percent faster than most apps will experience on the device.



Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/01/samsung-again-caught-inflating-benchmarking-scores-phil-schiller-calls-shenanigans/

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Re: Samsung Again Caught Inflating Benchmarking Scores
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2013, 05:52:03 am »
Yeah, well, did you read through your links. They're not the only ones...