A service found on some of Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones might be holding back performance in games and other applications. It’s called Game Optimizing Service (GOS) and it appears to be throttling Galaxy phones in more than 10,000 apps. Curiously, it seems to leave benchmarking applications like 3DMark alone.

The knee-jerk reaction to that

Just in case anyone thinks we’re being the least bit serious about starting a GoFundMe for GPU scalpers, we’re not. They don’t need a GoFundMe, they can go you-know-what instead. Their financial well-being notwithstanding, the good news here is that prices of graphics cards in the secondhand market are trending downward.

Temper your expectation