Geekbench delists four Galaxy S flagships because of Samsung's throttling behavior

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Geekbench says Samsung tried to manipulate benchmark results and has thus removed the last four Galaxy S flagships.

last week and the behavior has led to it being booted from the benchmarking platform Geekbench.

The company conveniently left out the name of benchmarking apps like 3DMark and Geekbench from the list of apps that GOS has access to but when these were renamed, their results were also impacted. That means benchmarking tools were overestimating the real performance of some Samsung phones. Samsung responded by clarifying that GOS optimizes CPU and GPU performance to prevent overheating during long gaming sessions and also said it would roll out a software update to let the users decide whether they want to enable or disable GOS. The company did not address the 6,800 non-gaming apps that were also impacted by GOS.

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