Seems pretty much a non-issue to me, and a really unfair comparison. Whereas “diesel-gate” was a blatant effort to deceive government dictated emissions tests illegally and (nearly) undetectably, this is just a matter of companies sending their product to reviewers with the better performing mode–available to everyone–toggled to on. No one’s accusing them of tweaking these cards or doing custom over clocks. Just the “turbo” mode button is pressed, in plain sight to the reviewer.
Sure, it should be mentioned in the review–as any good bench marking review would do when listing the conditions of their tests —but I kind of expect benchmarks to show best case available “off the shelf” settings anyway.
