Users on the South Korean tech site Meeco have collected a list of over 10,000 apps that are affected by Samsung’s GOS, including most Samsung and Google apps as well as some of the most popular apps like Instagram, TikTok, Netflix, and Microsoft Office. Benchmarking apps, on the other hand, appear to be immune to this power-saving strategy and run without throttling.
A South Korean tech YouTuber produced a video in which he runs the 3DMark benchmark on his Galaxy S22 Ultra with and without Samsung’s GOS, and the results show a considerable difference in scores. Surprisingly, the customer altered 3DMark’s software package name to Genshin Impact, which is on the list of 10,000 impacted apps, and his device immediately received worse results. With the service turned off, the phone scored 2,618 points and averaged 15.7 frames per second, whereas with it on, it scored only 1,141 points and averaged 6.8 frames per second.
