Does Samsung have a problem with its new Exynos chipset that will feature inside some Samsung Galaxy S9/Galaxy S9+ models?
A new batch of tests done by the boffins over at AnandTech suggest that it just might, as the new Galaxy phone lost to Apple’s iPhone 7 – a phone that originally landed in 2016.
According to the publication, this shouldn’t happen, not with a phone as new as the Galaxy S9. And this can apparently only mean one thing: something is very wrong with Samsung’s Exynos chipsets.
Keep in mind that the iPhone 7 that beat it runs a two-year-old CPU and just 2GB of RAM. Apple’s iPhone 8 and iPhone X also beat the Galaxy S9 too, but it is the loss to the iPhone 7 (in one test) that is most significant – there is no way it should have happened. Not if everything was functioning as it should.
“One of the Samsung spokesmen confirmed to me that the demo unit was running special firmware for MWC and that they might not be optimised,” said the report.
It added: “I’m having a bit of a hard time believing they would so drastically limit the performance of the device for the show demo units and less so that they would mess around with the scheduler settings.”
Most Samsung Galaxy S9 phones will run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 CPU, with only a few regions getting the Exynos versions, so for most people, this shouldn’t be too much of an issue (if it turns out to be an actual issue in the end).
The handsets tested at MWC are not release-grade handsets, but the units should be pretty close to what appears in shops later this month. Either way, they should not be losing to two-year-old iPhones in tests.
So, yes, maybe it is a glitch. It’s possible. But there could also be a more serious undertone to this, one that could make things very tricky for Samsung as the Galaxy S9 is just weeks away from a proper release.
More as we get it…
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