New Delhi: Having already been accused for boosting benchmark scores on the Galaxy S4, Samsung, reportedly, has repeated the same unfair practice on the Note 3 to trick users and reviewers into believing that it's latest Android phablet is better than offerings from other competitors.
According to Ars Technica, Samsung seems to have artificially boosted the Galaxy Note 3 to score better on benchmarking tests. The Galaxy note 3 powered by a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 was put in comparison to the similarly specced LG G2 which also includes an identical 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 processor processor, and the benchmarking test results indicated that some trickery was involved.
The report claims that a high-power CPU mode gets activated when the Note 3 runs benchmarking apps and the scores that appear are 20 per cent inflated.
"In Geekbench's multicore test, the Note 3's benchmark mode gives the device a 20 percent boost over its "natural" score. With the benchmark boosting logic stripped away, the Note 3 drops down to LG G2 levels, which is where we initially expected the score to be, given the identical SoCs. This big of a boost means that the Note 3 is not just messing with the CPU idle levels; significantly more oomph is unlocked when the device runs a benchmark," said the website.
AnandTech a few months back had posted a long piece on how Samsung used trickery to make the Galaxy S4 perform better on the benchmarking tests.
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