It seems like the petition against the Exynos 990 version of the Galaxy S20 phones has a valid reason after all. Despite the company's claims that the Exynos 990-powered Galaxy S20 phones will perform similarly with its Snapdragon 865 counterpart, more evidence shows that it is inferior to other high-end chips.

Galaxy S20 and S20+

Redmi Note 8 Pro with MediaTek inside wrecks Exynos 990 Samsung Galaxy S20+ in a game test

To add insult to the injury, a new game test showed that the Exynos 990-powered Galaxy S20+ was beaten by the Xiaomi Redmi 8 Pro, a mid-range device powered by the MediaTek Helio G90T chip in a recent PUBG Mobile game test.

In a video published by Chong Liu, the Galaxy S20+ using the Exynos 990 chipset struggled against the Helio G90T-powered Redmi Note 8 Pro. It showed that after 10 minutes of running PUBG Mobile, the Galaxy S20+ was dropping frames to 50 fps.

File photo: Redmi Note 8 Pro

It even dropped to as low as 40 fps at the 20-minute mark. Meanwhile, the Redmi Note 8 Pro maintained its frame rates very well.

Result of the fps test

This further proves that the Exynos 990 has throttling issues. We tried to run AnTuTu on it for 3 straight times and there's a significant benchmark score drop after the 3rd try.

AnTuTu score of Galaxy S20+ after 3 straight tries

To recall, the Galaxy S20+ is a PHP 55,990 premium device while the Redmi Note 8 Pro has a starting price of just PHP 11,490.

Samsung should really do something about this in the near future.

Source: Chong Liu, Via: Notebookcheck