Samsung is facing renewed backlash over a new report that found its Galaxy Tab S8+ and Tab S8 Ultra tablets are also throttling some mobile games.
The performance throttling saga for Samsung’s flagship hardware isn’t over yet. After getting its Galaxy S series flagships — starting with Galaxy S22 and dating all the way back to Galaxy S10 — delisted from a popular benchmarking platform, the ax has now fallen on the Galaxy Tab S8 series of flagship tablets. The folks over at Android Police ran a few tests on the Galaxy Tab S8+ and its Ultra variant and found that both devices are also engaged in performance throttling. In order to test it, the Geekbench benchmarking app’s package name was changed to « Genshin Impact, » a resource-intensive game that is often used to assess a chip’s raw firepower and the efficiency of a device’s thermal hardware. When the benchmarking app’s name was changed, the tablets’ single-core benchmarking tally fell by up to 28 percent, while the multi-core scores went down by approximately 10 percent.
