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Samsung Again Caught Inflating Benchmarking Scores, Phil Schiller Calls 'Shenanigans'

I have to worry about the products made by a company that is willing to lie about their performance and to do this so overtly. GM lied about its Chevy hybrid and Nissan lied about its Leaf and Samsung lies all the time. There is "specsmanship" and there is outright lying and there is a difference.
 
TWSS37 said:
But the cores did produce those results, but they just aren't in line with the unwritten rule of what a benchmark should be testing for? Got it.
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No, because it is being over clocked specifically for the purpose of benchmark, and is not what the computer is actually capable of doing.
 
not so surprised.
Samsung is company of copying and forging number (performance and sales)
 
Don't think it's fake as such - just highlighting that if you compare like with like, the Note 3 has similar performance to a phone with similar specs and other phones would be faster if the same process was used.

Clearly something didn't make sense in the benchmarking and from now on, reviews will hopefully take this into account so that phones can be benchmarked consistently.. Which is the whole point of benchmarks
 
I love Phil Schiller doing essentially John Gruber / Daring Fireball style blogging :)
 
Hardly a surprise.

Now I have to get back to my full time paid job posting anti-Apple and positive Samsung comments on various forums ;)
 
TTile said:
Because its only unlocking the power for these benchmarks. You don't get to experience that power in everyday use.

Its analogous to a governor on a car. Yes, the engine can take you to 200mph but if the governor only lets you hit 130mph then you can never use that extra 70mph.
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No, it's more nefarious than that. It's like increasing the boost on a turbocharged car specifically for cars that go to car mags to be tested for 0-60 times and 1/4 mile and then selling cars to the public that are much slower as the higher boost levels aren't available to regular consumers as in long-term boosting causes overheating problems.
 
Wow, that's pretty shameless. I have no doubt other businesses do it as well, but that doesn't make it any better.
 
Moccasin said:
Don't think it's fake as such - just highlighting that if you compare like with like, the Note 3 has similar performance to a phone with similar specs and other phones would be faster if the same process was used.

Clearly something didn't make sense in the benchmarking and from now on, reviews will hopefully take this into account so that phones can be benchmarked consistently.. Which is the whole point of benchmarks
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Have you read the previous articles on this? Samsung engineers specifically added code in the phone's firmware in that it's sole purpose is to overclock the cpu ONLY when the benchmarking code is found. That's cheating plain and simple as the phone would either overheat and/or crash or reduced battery life if the CPU was allowed to run at those higher speeds consistently.

If Apple were also doing this, they should be called out as well.
 
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