You’d think Samsung would stop manipulating benchmark tests after being caught few months back. Well, they’ve been caught again rigging synthetic benchmark tests that will make the Galaxy Note 3 way ahead than the competition. Unlike the first time, Samsung has tried to boost the benchmark on a Snapdragon 800 variant meant for the US market.
Ars Technica found it fishy that a competitive device with the same processor fares lower in benchmarks while the Galaxy Note 3 comes out on top every time. As it turns out, the site says Samsung’s device triggers a benchmark booster that makes all the CPU cores to run at full clock speed during certain benchmark apps. The result was a 20 percent gain from the ‘non-boosted’ score but still more than the competitive device, which makes us ponder why would Samsung want to jeopardise its brand name and trust for certain benchmarks.
Read the site’s complete findings below.
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