SAMSUNG CAUGHT ON OPTIMIZING GALAXY S4 BENCHMARK

Popular website Anandtech has revealed that Samsung has been optimizing the Exynos 5 Octa powered Samsung Galaxy S4 for benchmarks. A forum post by AnderiF on the Beyond3D forum in June, that alleged that Samsung was over-clocking the phone's graphic processor to 5333MHz for certain benchmark, while other apps or games were limited to 480 MHz , inspired the folks over at Anandtech to investigate the issue.

The website informs that Samsung is over-clocking the Galaxy S4's Coretex A15 cores to 1.2 GHz while running the GLBenchmark 2.55.1, AnTuTu , Linpack and Quadrant apps for bench-marking. However, the phone's processor ran at 533 MHz while performing bench-marking test. It runs at 480 MHz, otherwise.

The report also mentions that Samsung includes a code referred to as " Benchmark Booster" that essentially trigger the phone's hardware to run at higher clock speed when benchmark test are run.

The whole expose reveals that benchmark cannot be relied upon to gauge the everyday performance odf smartphone or tablets, and hardware makers are tricking reviewers and end users who rely only on benchmark while recommending or buying a device.

Recently Samsung has responded to report , saying it did not use any specific tools to archive higher benchmarks. However , its statement  completely ignores the damning bits Anandtech found in the code.