They're (almost) all doing it: cheating on benchmarks

Recently, an item on these pages included a link to a claim of a benchmark cheat mode in the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Turns out almost all of them are doing it:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks / AndreiF7's work discover discovery discovering investigate investigation investigating investigations Samsung’s CPU GPU optimise optimize optimisation optimisations optimizations international Galaxy S 4 Exynos 5410 Samsung detect detection detecting presence certain benchmark benchmarks raise raised raising thermal limits maximum maxima max GPU frequency edge benchmarks benchmarked benchmarking Snapdragon 600 Exynos 5410 SGS4 platforms platform Samsung detect detection detecting benchmarks auto automatic automatically driving CPU voltage frequency highest state Snapdragon platforms all cores plugged immediately upon benchmark detect Exynos 5410 equipped version Galaxy S4 S 4 III confirm GPU frequency MHz exceed exceeding exceeded Snapdragon 600 version platform platforms table subset devices test testing tested silicon benchmark detect maximum max CPU frequency all cores A15 cluster /