Samsung allegedly boosting benchmark performance

Anandtech digs deep on a forum allegation and finds depressing results.

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deathBOB[/url]":1zcv48i0]Boy I sure don't care about mobile benchmarks.

To play devil's advocate, mobile computing is still an area where performance is still something that could be a factor, depending on application. For desktops, most people can afford a computer that far exceeds the demands of actually critical software. While Ars might be a hotbed of people tweaking to get Crysis or some similar application running at 120 FPS or something, mobile devices can still fail to provide the proper sweet spot of speed and battery life. I know the Macbook Air I am typing this on is woefully unable to do many things my desktop, a full two years older, can just shrug off.

Cheating mobile benchmarking could have actual consequences when mobile phones can cost as much as a video card with contract, and a video card + ram + something else without contract.

 

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deathBOB[/url]":up3agbsn]Boy I sure don't care about mobile benchmarks.

To play devil's advocate, mobile computing is still an area where performance is still something that could be a factor, depending on application. For desktops, most people can afford a computer that far exceeds the demands of actually critical software. While Ars might be a hotbed of people tweaking to get Crysis or some similar application running at 120 FPS or something, mobile devices can still fail to provide the proper sweet spot of speed and battery life. I know the Macbook Air I am typing this on is woefully unable to do many things my desktop, a full two years older, can just shrug off.

Cheating mobile benchmarking could have actual consequences when mobile phones can cost as much as a video card with contract, and a video card + ram + something else without contract.

While I agree what he posted won't be true for all users, and that it's a shady practice by Samsung in any case, it could still very well be true for the poster you quoted.

I know that myself, I mostly use very simple apps, which don't tax my phone much. Google Maps and Ingress are probably the two slowest running ones, and I don't feel I can fully blame the slowness of Ingress on my phone.
The day that docking a phone in and using it as one does a laptop for work now comes (assuming it does), this might well change for me.

Fair enough. My point was that there are companies that may actually care about every bit of phone performance. If you are setting up a big contract for all your employees, and expect them to have a phone that replaces a lot of computer functionality (say for highly mobile field reps), fake benchmarking could be an issue and result in a non trivial financial consideration. So even if your personal use case could care less, I was trying to illustrate who this may be worthwhile news for some people.

My initial response was the same as the post I quoted, but then I thought about non-personal phone uses.