Even the new Samsung tablets of the Galaxy Tab S8 family end up in the “GOS storm”. Brief summary for those who do not know what it is: in recent weeks Samsung has ended up at the center of controversy linked precisely to the GOS (in full Game Optimizing Service), or a service present in the last four generations of Galaxy that intervenes to limit the performance of smartphones during gaming sessions (in order to better manage temperatures and decrease energy expenditure), but does not activate while running the benchmarks.
The scores marked on the card, in short, do not correspond to those recorded in real use scenarios: for this reason, Geekbench, a well-known platform dedicated to benchmarks, has decided to exclude Samsung phones with GOS from its database. The response of the Korean giant, however, was lightning-fast, with the release of an update for the Galaxy S22 flagship range that allows you to disable the execution of GOS.
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However, from a test conducted by AndroidPolice, it appears that GOS is also present on Samsung’s tablets, including the latest arrivals Galaxy Tab S8, Galaxy Tab S8+ and Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, which we gave you a first taste of in our preview. The test consisted in running a particular version of the Geekbench app disguised, however, to make the system believe that it was a game, and specifically Genshin Impact.
As can be seen from the table below, the difference in scores reported between the “trojan horse” app and the authentic one is evident, with single-thread CPU performance decreasing from 18 to 24%, and multi-core ones since 6 to 11%.
In short, it seems that GOS clicks limit performance even on the latest Samsung tablets. And it would also be a novelty, since the Galaxy Tab S7, S7 FE and S5e instead behave practically the same way in both scenarios, with a minimum deviation that falls within the tolerance margin of the natural differences between a recording and the ‘other.
UPDATE COMING SOON?
At the moment the Galaxy Tab S8 series has not yet been aggregated to the Geekbench database. The platform, questioned about the issue by AndroidPolice, has made it known that it will not approve the benchmarks of the new Samsung tablets, thus applying – as expected – the same policy adopted with smartphones.
As for Samsung, there have not yet been any replicas: but considering how quickly it reacted on the front of the phones, it is possible that at the same time it has already started work to extend the possibility of disabling GOS also on tablets, and therefore soon this can be implemented through a specific software update.