[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.