Kevin OQuinn
AC Team Emeritus
This might be a similar concept to what GPU vendors ere doing with synthetic bench mark s but the methodology and result is completely different. GPU vendors cut workload out of he grapichs/physics code...resulting in a similar image (or sometimes identical) but what the GPU is actually doing is significantly less than the competitor...where as Samsung is wrenching up the clock speed, but doing the same work... Just faster. The reason socs aren't run at max capacity is heat, which affects battery life and soc lifespan as there's no active cooling solution applied (and barely passive)...
Likely this was done to show the max theoretical performance of the device, understanding that not all socs are going to bin the same and thus, won't tolerate higher clock speed is ton the same way. I'm not saying it was right...but I think we're in witch hunt territory here...people don't buy phones based on synthetic benchmarks like they buy graphics cards based on synthetic benchmarks... To put this much effort onto forcing results in a handful of synthetics that would matter to 1% of us isn't a good use of time or money.
From a features and side of box comparison... The Galaxy s4 already had the upper hand on the One, which was it's only real competition out of the gate... As stupid as that is...
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Except the average consumer trusts those benchmarks that the 1% of us don't.
In the article it was directly compared to what's GPU manufacturers have been caught doing.
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