{"id":123993,"date":"2022-03-04T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123993"},"modified":"2022-03-04T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:40:28","slug":"samsung-found-to-throttle-smartphone-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/123993-samsung-found-to-throttle-smartphone-performance","title":{"rendered":"Samsung found to throttle smartphone performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Korean Samsung users have found that Samsung&#8217;s Game Optimizing Service (GOS) application is throttling over 10,000 apps across the company&#8217;s range of smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user GaryeonHan has posted a complete list of all the apps inhibited by the GOS app, showing that it isn&#8217;t only games but also Instagram, TikTok, and Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung is even limiting some of its default apps like Secure Folder and Samsung Pay.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">that we use in our daily life, not just games. Importantly, we confirmed that benchmarking apps such as Geekbench and 3dmark were not included in the list. This is a kind of scam.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud55c\uac00\ub828 (@GaryeonHan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaryeonHan\/status\/1499009885706797061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>None of the popular benchmarking apps like 3DMark, Antutu, and Geekbench 5 are on the list, suggesting that previous benchmarks falsely represent the devices&#8217; real-world performance.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vtt2g3BlwM8&amp;ab_channel=%EB%84%A4%EB%AA%A8%EB%82%9C%EA%BF%88\">Korean YouTuber<\/a> discovered a trick to demonstrate this by changing 3DMark&#8217;s package name on his S22 to Genshin Impact and then redoing the benchmark with GOS running in the background.<\/p>\n<p>The results obtained showed that the overall benchmark score dropped by 1477, effectively throttling performance by slightly more than 50%.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_124003\" style=\"width: 1918px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/3DMark-comparison.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124003\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124003\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/3DMark-comparison.png\" alt=\"Two comparison screenshots of how GOS can affect performance\" width=\"1908\" height=\"967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/3DMark-comparison.png 1908w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/3DMark-comparison-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/3DMark-comparison-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/3DMark-comparison-1536x778.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1908px) 100vw, 1908px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-124003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This screenshot shows that the renamed 3DMark&#8217;s benchmark score is drastically lower than the original.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The GOS app is meant to improve battery life and reduce heat by limiting performance, but huge disparities like the one shown above will disappoint many customers.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung is conducting an internal investigation into the topic and should be releasing an official statement soon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/123930-lg-announces-new-48-inch-ultragear-gaming-monitor\">LG announces new 48-inch UltraGear gaming monitor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has been found throttling the performance of over 10,000 apps on its smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":124004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2226],"tags":[21118,25866,1435],"class_list":["post-123993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-mobile","tag-galaxy","tag-performance-throttling","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}