Announced last month during the IFA event in Berlin, the Galaxy Note 3 is one of the world's most powerful Android phones. If you just check out the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 specs, impressive features will surely blow you away. 

However, is it still possible for such a beast smartphone to get fabricated results in benchmarks? According to an investigation. 

In a report by GSM Arena, Ars Technica confirmed that Samsung has indeed tweaked its CPU by recognizing benchmark apps. In his observation with the help of a CPU monitor, Ars found out that when running 'recognized' benchmarking apps such as GFXBench, Linpack, Benchmark Pi, and Quadrant, all of the Note's four cores run at full-speed 2.26Ghz at the same time. 

However, when Ars run a non-benchmark app, the three cores were off and the fourth one just clocked 300MHz. 

To move a step further, Ars used a specially-developed benchmarking app - Geekbench 3. The app was renamed so the smartphone cannot recognize it as a benchmarking app. And indeed, its results showed that its three cores are idle while the fourth one just logged in 300MHz. 

According to GSM Arena, Geekbench 3's 'regular' (boosted) results were 20% faster, while some benchmarking apps such as Linpack even showed as much as 50% difference. 

No wonder, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 performed way better than the LG G2 considering they have similar specifications and processors.