The benchmark thing is pretty common in GPU vendors as well. It was pretty widely documented a while back that certain vendors were removing thermal limits[1] w

The benchmark thing is pretty common in GPU vendors as well. It was pretty widely documented a while back that certain vendors were removing thermal limits[1] when certain Android benchmark apps were detected. Only real solution is to write your own private benchmarks that match your use case and aren't shared widely but not a lot of people have that luxury. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-andr...