Be quick, CYBER MONDAY deals! Galaxy Watch 7, Samsung TV, Galaxy Buds 3 Pro and Galaxy S24 Ultra.

SamMobile has affiliate and sponsored partnerships. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn a commission.

News For You
News For You
Notifications

Samsung boosts Exynos Galaxy S4’s GPU clock speed to manipulate benchmark scores

Phone
By 

Last updated: July 30th, 2013 at 16:29 UTC+02:00

Well, here's some surprising news. The folks over at AnandTech have discovered that the octa-core Exynos variant of the Galaxy S4 has a trick up its sleeves that lets it score higher in benchmarks – Samsung has put in a system that boosts the clock speed of the phone's GPU whenever a benchmark app like AnTuTu, Quadrant and GLBenchmark is fired up.

The PowerVR SGX 544MP3 inside the Exynos chipset on the S4 usually runs at 480MHz, but upon starting those aforementioned apps, the clock speed gets bumped up to 533MHz and stays there unless you close the app. The CPU is also fixed at its maximum clock frequency (and in case of the Snapdragon variant, all cores are made active).

This gives it an artificial boost, up to 10% or more in some cases, that you won't ever find coming into effect in real-life usage such as playing games or doing any other graphics-heavy stuff on the phone. Which, ultimately, make these benchmarks just something for show off without too much real-world value, though that's true of benchmarks in general.

So, I guess there's no point in boasting about your Galaxy S4's benchmark scores in front of your friends any more. Let's hope Samsung doesn't use these tricks in future devices, as it seems a cheap way to make your device stand out among the competition in benchmark comparisons.

Read all the details about the findings at the source link.

Source

Phone Galaxy S4
Galaxy AI summarized

Scroll for more related content
News For You

You might also like

WhatsApp will stop working for some Galaxy phones by next month

WhatsApp will stop working for some Galaxy phones by next month

Meta is ending WhatsApp support for older Android OS versions, which means the messaging app will stop working on some Galaxy phones later this month. However, we wouldn't worry about it unless you're a classic Galaxy phone collector still using some of the company's original models. WhatsApp will stop working for Android 5.0 and older […]

  • By Mihai Matei
  • 1 year ago
Galaxy S4 throwback: One of the best-selling phones of all time

Galaxy S4 throwback: One of the best-selling phones of all time

One decade has gone by since Samsung released the Galaxy S4. And, as it turned out, the Galaxy S4 remains one of the most popular Android smartphones of all time. After unveiling the Galaxy S4 in May 2013, Samsung released the phone on April 27 of the same year. It's about to turn ten years […]

  • By Mihai Matei
  • 2 years ago
Samsung will pay $10 to Galaxy S4 owners for manipulating benchmark scores

Samsung will pay $10 to Galaxy S4 owners for manipulating benchmark scores

Back in 2013, Samsung and a few other Android manufacturers were caught cheating on smartphone benchmarks. They did this by including code that temporarily increased the speed of the chipset when a benchmark app was running. Samsung’s Galaxy S4 was one of the devices to have allegedly engaged in such behavior. Unsurprisingly, a lawsuit was […]

  • By Naresh
  • 5 years ago
10 years of Samsung Galaxy S flagships: Looking back at the Galaxy S4!

10 years of Samsung Galaxy S flagships: Looking back at the Galaxy S4!

Welcome to part four of our 10 years of Samsung Galaxy S flagship series, in which we here at SamMobile talk about our experiences and memories of each of the nine Galaxy S flagships that have come before the Galaxy S10. Today, we look back at the Galaxy S4, the best-selling Galaxy S flagship of all […]

  • By Abhijeet Mishra
  • 6 years ago
Facebook integration in Gallery and other apps ending June 30 for old Samsung devices

Facebook integration in Gallery and other apps ending June 30 for old Samsung devices

Starting June 30, users of Samsung's Android smartphones launched between 2012 and 2014 will no longer be able to access their Facebook pictures and information in apps such as Gallery, Calendar, and the Briefing widget for the home screen. We're told the affected devices are mostly those that ran Android KitKat, Lollipop, or Marshmallow. Devices […]

  • By Abhijeet Mishra
  • 6 years ago
Pay to Play: An examination of Samsung’s rising smartphone prices

Pay to Play: An examination of Samsung’s rising smartphone prices

We’ve seen the cost of the next Galaxy already, enough to know that Italy will have it a little harder than the rest of us with buying the upcoming devices, but some believe these new prices are indicative of an upward trend for Samsung: that is, the upcoming prices are part of a phone trend […]

  • By Deidre R.
  • 8 years ago