Amid record-breaking Galaxy S22 sales, Samsung now finds itself in the midst of a scandal-like situation involving benchmark cheating, threatening the so far excellent response for its new flagships. The company was recently found to be artificially limiting system performance of its Galaxy phones on a list of 10,000 apps. And as if the resultant outrage wasn’t enough, benchmarking utility Geekbench has now announced the removal of several Galaxy flagships from its Android Benchmark charts.
The performance throttling, or ‘optimization’ as Samsung puts it, is managed by the GOS service. This service has been cited by Geekbench in a tweet that stated that throttling was discovered to be done on the basis of application identifiers and not application behavior.
Following extensive internal testing, Geekbench determined that the following models use GOS:
- Samsung Galaxy S22 (all models)
- Samsung Galaxy S21 (all models)
- Samsung Galaxy S20 (all models)
- Samsung Galaxy S10 (all models)
Consequently, all of these handsets were removed from the Android Benchmark chart on the Geekbench Browser. This has likely been done because their scores did not reflect the performance one expects and because the entire thing is rather unfair.
Another interesting bit to note here is that the list excludes the Galaxy S22 series despite Samsung confirming that the lineup comes with GOS, at least in South Korea. The reason for this is unclear at the moment.
Regardless, Samsung has issued a statement saying that it’s planning to update the Game Booster Lab as soon as possible to offer an option to prioritize performance.
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