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

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Or, alternatively by Truth_Quark · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The phone manufacturers should not be dicks.

  2. And Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    With the exception of Motorola...

    And Apple. Apple and Motorola/Google are the only two companies that don't boost their devices for benchmark tests. If you're going to give credit to one, please do be fair and give credit to the other.

    I respect both of them for that level of integrity and I hope they stick to their guns and remain honest.

    I may be an Apple fanboy (and I am) but I'm really looking forward to seeing what Motorola starts releasing in about a year once Google's able to, as they said, flush things out of the system and start releasing truly Google-designed products.

    1. Re:And Apple by Dixie_Flatline · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It's not a mid-range device. It's only mid-range if you look at the spec sheet and nothing else. Its (non-gamed) benchmarks are actually pretty good for all this talk of 'mid-range'. They did the same thing Apple did and tried to balance out performance with battery life. They didn't put the biggest screen in it, and they have optimised silicon to listen for commands without keeping the CPU on all the time.

      Specs aren't the war that anyone should be trying to win in the mobile space. That kind of thinking is why there are phones that only last half the day.