Is Samsung Galaxy Note 3 tweaked to give inflated benchmark results?
While testing the Galaxy Note 3 for covering a review, Ars Technica Reviews editor Ron Amadeo found that the phablet benchmark scores are higher than LG G2 though both the devices have similar Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset with same 2.3GHz quad-core Krait 400 CPU. Amadeo unearthed that the scores are distinguished when testing the Galaxy Note 3 and the G2 on several popular benchmark apps, including Geekbench 3, Quadrant, AnTuTu, Linpack, GFXBench and some other benchmark apps. The results gap between both the devices’ scores is about 20 to 50 percent, however, the actual performance of both the devices is quite same.
Taking Samsung manipulation on high note, Apple Marketing head, Philip Schiller recently tweeted, after a long time, and stated Samsung as “shenanigans”.
Samsung earlier came into the news for tweaking with the benchmark results of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone. Then the manufacturer accused of optimising the CPU and GPU cores which resulted high benchmark results. The benchmark tests were performed by GLBenchmark 2.5.1, AnTuTu and Quadrant benchmark apps.
