Samsung is artificially slowing down your Galaxy smartphone
Ever wondered why games don’t play quite well on your shiny new Galaxy S22 despite it packing the best hardware on the market? It turns out that there is more to it than just bad Exynos 2200/Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 performance. The real culprit is Samsung’s GOS (Games Optimization Service) which aggressively throttles CPU and GPU performance.
Multiple sources, including a South Korean YouTuber Square Dream, confirmed his findings with a little trickery. He renamed the popular benchmarking app “3D Mark” as “Genshin Impact” and found that merely changing the package name resulted in a significant dip in scores.
