Geekbench has just excluded the Galaxy S22, S21, S20 and S10 from its platform. Accused of wanting to manipulate the results of its smartphones, Samsung has undertaken to deploy an update to correct the situation.
A few days ago, South Korean Internet users discovered that Samsung is limiting the performance of its Galaxy S. While digging into the overlay code, they discovered that aa software option reduces the power of the SoC when certain applications are open. More than 10,000 Android applications are affected by the measure.
On the other hand, this restraint, entitled Game Optimizing Service (GOS), is not activated when a benchmark application is launched by the user. Internet users behind the discovery were quick to accuse Samsung of cheating in the benchmarks.
Geekbench excludes 4 generations of Galaxy S
In response, Geekbench, one of the most popular benchmarking platforms, decided to ban all Galaxy S released since 2019. “Earlier this week, we learned about Samsung’s Game Optimizing Service (GOS) and how it limits game and app performance. GOS decides to limit (or not to limit) applications using application identifiers and not the behavior of the application”, says Geekbench in a statement.
The platform considers that Samsung wanted to manipulate the results. “We consider this a form of benchmark manipulation as major benchmark applications, including Geekbench, are not restricted by this service.” believes Geekbench.
The Galaxy S22, Galaxy S21, Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S10 ranges are affected by this exclusion. For now, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Foldable and Galaxy A remain authorized on Geekbench. This isn’t the first time Geekbench has done this. The platform has already briefly excludes several brands and smartphones in the past.
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Samsung promises a fix for its Galaxy S
Faced with the scale of the controversy, Samsung quickly published a press release full of contrition. “We plan to roll out a software update soon so users can monitor performance while running gaming apps”announces the Seoul giant.
This fix will visibly allow users to enable or disable the Game Optimizing Service based on their needs. Samsung says this feature has been only designed for smartphone games. It aims to manage “effectively the temperature of the device”. Concretely, it limits the performance of the chipset when the smartphone starts to overheat.
