In addition, excellent detective work (especially by Golden Reviewer) has led to the conclusion that the downloaded Geekbench result screenshot clearly comes from a Xiaomi phone and is likely an entry for a Redmi K50 Pro with Dimensity 9000 SoC that has been altered to show the Galaxy S22-related details. However, Snapdragon supporters and rational reviewers soon started pointing out some discrepancies, including the fact that the Geekbench screenshot states that the Galaxy S22 Ultra is running on Android 11, even though it was launched with Android 12. To put that into context, our own testing of the Exynos 2200 on Geekbench (with the S22 Ultra) resulted in 1,154 points (single) and 3,560 points (multi), which would leave the souped-up device that had its "results" shown in the Mrwhosetheboss video +11.53% and +20.45%, respectively, ahead of our review unit. ![]() ![]() The situation was kicked off by the somewhat innocuous appearance of a Geekbench result shown in a video ironically about Samsung’s controversial GOS utility, which delivers higher device performance when it thinks it's running a synthetic benchmark.įans of the Samsung Exynos-branded S22 devices rapidly started posting a screenshot of this particular result as it shows the Exynos 2200 supposedly scoring a very decent 1,287 points in single-core testing and a frankly amazing 4,288 points in the multi-core test. This time around, it is Qualcomm Snapdragon fans facing off against supporters of Samsung’s Exynos processors, specifically in regard to the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. The report further says that similar configurations were found on a whole bunch of other MediaTek devices, including the Vivo S1 with the Helio P65, the Xiaomi (Redmi) Note 8 Pro with the Helio G90, the Realme C3 with the Helio G70 and the Sony XAI with the Helio P20, among others.Fierce fandom has been creating ripples in the tech world as usual, with Mrwhosetheboss becoming embroiled in the latest conflict between supporters of one product and another. Some of the common benchmarking apps found on the list include the likes of PCMark, GeekBench, AnTuTu, 3DBench and Quadrant alongside a few Chinese benchmark apps. As per the report, the phone’s power_whitelist_cfg.xml file had a list of popular applications, including some of the aforementioned benchmark apps, with various power management tweaks applied to them. However, what set the alarm bells ringing was the Chinese version of the Reno3 with the newer and supposedly faster Dimensity 1000L chipset, performing much worse in those same benchmark tests.Īs it turns out, MediaTek was specifically preventing the benchmarking apps from activating the chip’s thermal throttling mechanism so as to return higher scores than they would in real-world scenarios. The blog says it started its investigation when it found that the European version of the Oppo Reno 3 Pro with the older Helio P95 chipset was returning significantly higher benchmark scores than what was expected from a Cortex-A75 class SoC. ![]() However, AnandTech now claims that chipmaker MediaTek is also guilty of fudging benchmark scores of some of its smartphone SoCs. The problem was thus far believed to have been limited to smartphone vendors, with Samsung, OnePlus and Huawei being some of the prominent companies to have been caught up in this controversy from time to time.
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