If you find that the new Galaxy S22 in your hand has the best hardware, but the performance when playing games is not very good, now it seems that this is not Exynos 2200/Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has poor performance, and the real culprit is Samsung’s GOS (Game Optimization Service), which kills the performance of the phone’s CPU and GPU.
South Korean YouTuber Square Dream confirmed his findings with a little trick when he renamed the popular benchmarking app 3D Mark to the game Genshin Impact’s name “Genshin Impact” and found that just changing the package name led to the benchmark scores a substantial decline.
Likewise, a user on the Korean forum Clien, who renamed Geekbench to Genshin Impact, found that in some cases, single-threaded performance dropped by nearly 50%. The differences vary across each generation of Galaxy phones, with older devices like the Galaxy S10 showing only a slight dip in performance.
Just run the game and the GOS will launch and there is a long list of apps that meet the criteria for “game”, which was posted online by Twitter user @GaryeonHan, who also talks about this at length, strangely like Microsoft Office and YouTube Vanced. Several non-gaming apps are also on the list.
According to a post on Naver, Samsung appears to be aware of the issue and is actively investigating it. An official announcement should come soon, though Samsung shouldn’t explain too much about killing gaming performance for no reason.
It’s unclear if the game would be significantly improved in performance if the game were renamed to the name of a benchmarking application such as Geekbench. If there will be a significant increase, this obviously shows that Samsung deliberately increased the processor frequency to make the running score higher, and IT Home will keep an eye on it.