How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 4, 2013 @01:34AM from the at-least-they're-consistent dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After Samsung got caught out cheating on benchmarks (Note 3, Galaxy S4) AnandTech has done a detailed analysis of the state of benchmark cheating amongst Android OEMs. With the exception of Motorola, literally every single OEM they've looked at ships (or has shipped) at least one device that does benchmark-specific CPU optimizations. AnandTech also thinks it will get worse before it gets better. 'The hilarious part of all of this is we’re still talking about small gains in performance. The impact on our CPU tests is 0 - 5%, and somewhere south of 10% on our GPU benchmarks as far as we can tell. I can't stress enough that it would be far less painful for the OEMs to just stop this nonsense and instead demand better performance/power efficiency from their silicon vendors.' The article notes that Apple doesn't do any of the frequency gaming stuff."

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The best part by aitikin · 2013-10-04 02:19 · Score: 3, Funny

Is that the table is titled "I Can't Believe I Have to Make This Table". Made me smile.

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Re:Wrong, they are boosting clock speed above norm by ifiwereasculptor · 2013-10-04 04:03 · Score: 4, Funny

either the GPU or CPU cock increased.
Whoa, can cell phones do that now? I hold these things to my ear, for Christ's sake!
Re:"Pretty Much All of Them" by triffid_98 · 2013-10-04 05:00 · Score: 3, Funny

No, Apple already has that part down to a science.

Step #1
Hype new iPhone
Step #2
Release new iPhone
Step #3
Immediately release new iOS update.
Step #4
Watch existing iPhone users complain after the iOS update cripples older models.
Step #5
Laugh maniacally after existing iPhone users stand in lines waiting for new uncrippled iPhones.
Step #6
PROFIT