![]() ![]() We'll update this article if Samsung provides a statement. What good is a fast SoC if you never use it? Samsung’s Galaxy S22 smartphones were removed from Geekbench after they were found to be throttling performance and now, Xiaomi’s 12 Pro and Xiaomi 12X are said to be removed from Geekbench by the end of this week. Right now, it looks like the only apps that get full power are the benchmark apps. It's pretty inexcusable to throttle your own home screen, app store, browser, and other core 2D apps. If there is anything you want to be fast, it's the core phone interface. When a command comes in to open an app or navigate a webpage, the phone tries to do the action as quickly as possible so it can go back to sleep and start saving power again. If you're just reading an email or webpage and not touching the screen, the phone does its best to go into a low-power state automatically. Most mobile power conservation relies on a "rush to sleep" policy. Throttling a regular 2D app is a tough sell, though. Games require sustained usage and need to update the screen constantly, so throttling can save battery life. ![]() ![]() Normally, the throttling behavior is not user-controllable, but the users are tricking the service by modifying apps.įurther Reading OnePlus admits to throttling 300 popular apps with recent updateThrottling a game is not necessarily bad if users have control over the feature, allowing them to choose between performance or longer battery life is reasonable. Samsung has already acknowledged the app throttling issue without going into much element concerning the GOS behavior. By changing the package names of popular benchmark apps-thereby making the "Game Optimizing Service" treat a benchmark app like a normal app-scores dropped anywhere from 13 to 45 percent on the Galaxy S10, S20, S21, and the new S22. Samsung's throttling app is called the "Game Optimizing Service." Users of the Korean message board found wildly different benchmark scores depending on whether benchmark apps had their original names or not. If they do, we will deleted from geekbench over cheating delist them from the Android Benchmark chart, it added. It's like benchmark cheating but in reverse. Benchmarks deleted geekbench cheating allegations update Whether a future update will undo this throttling, or allow users to customize the phones power options, remains to be seen. Instead of boosting the SoC speeds when a benchmark app is running, Android OEMs are now turning down phone performance any time a benchmark app isn't running. It sounds like the scheme OnePlus was caught running last year. This time, the company is accused of throttling 10,000 Android apps-but not benchmark apps. Samsung is once again in hot water over how it treats benchmark apps. When Anandtech ran a browser-based benchmark called Speedometer 2.0 on the OnePlus 9 Pro, it managed a score of 61.5, which is lower compared to flagships featuring the same Snapdragon 888. ![]()
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