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by vvanders 3476 days ago
The benchmark thing is pretty common in GPU vendors as well. It was pretty widely documented a while back that certain vendors were removing thermal limits[1] when certain Android benchmark apps were detected.

Only real solution is to write your own private benchmarks that match your use case and aren't shared widely but not a lot of people have that luxury.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-andr...