[Schlaefer]

> You have to bend over backwards to see that as anything other than dishonest.

"Our new hot device has this awesome performance mode but those benchmarks aren't aware for it and it won't be utilized in the device reviews. So let's make sure it's used in these benchmark applications."

If they just flip the switches available to every developer/application it's not necessarily dishonest just tech marketing.

[joesb]

1. If this awesome performance mode is turned on automatically when the app needs it. Then it must have turn on automatically for the benchmark without actually checking the application name, right?

2. Otherwise, if it require the application to be aware to utilize this feature, then why hasn't Samsung announce this "mode" to developer to utilize it yet?

[deveac]

A high-performant mode would be a feature that would be marketed and lauded by the OEM, not something hidden from view and hardcoded only to benchmark testers.

Also, benchmarks are designed to compare apples to apples, so if, as you suggest, the high-performant mode wouldn't be triggered by benchmark use-cases normally, then hard coding the exception is dishonest, as the only explanation is turning your apple into an orange.