FROM GEEKBENCH OVER CHEATING UPDATE

No word on the update coming to the Tab S8 series just yet. Samsung already started issuing a software update for the S22 series that disables the limitations of the GOS. Galaxy Tab S7 and Tab S7 FE, or the Tab S5e didn’t have the same problem. Tab S8+ had the largest discrepancy, as it reached 12 points in the standard GeekBench version and 9 points in the modified version. It was considered cheating and the devices were. This means that when a set of app names associated to benchmarks is detected, they’ll be run with more power than other apps. After the Galaxy S22 series release, the Geekbench developers found that the company was also throttling the performance in over 10000 apps. It also resulted in lower single core and multi core CPU scores. Ryan Shrout ran the public version of Geekbench and a 'private version' with a renamed executable back to back, and found some drastic performance differences.

This trick makes a tablet think it’s running a game and not a benchmarking app. Amid allegations that Huawei devices are 'cheating' in 3D benchmarks like 3DMark and GFXBench, Shrout Research found that the Huawei P20 Pro artificially inflates Geekbench scores. A report from Android Police shows that the Galaxy Tab S8+ and Tab S8 Ultra reach much lower scores in a modified version of GeekBench with the app renamed to Genshin Impact (a popular mobile game). It affected the last generation of Galaxy S devices and also the Tab S8 apparently, which has been delisted from the Geekbench database. Hardkernel are the only ones who managed to get a bl30.bin blob from Amlogic for their ODROID-C2 that does not cheat on us but honours the cpufreq framework, sets the wanted clockspeeds and also returns real and not faked cpufreq values. Samsung had trouble with the fact that it was artificially throttling app performance on some of its devices via something called the Game Optimization Service (GOS).

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