ePic Control board review

Well I decided to play with the ePic control board and see how it would do vs factory firmware on a low power consumption test. Unfortunately it absolutely sucks at 2276watts @ 60.81th!

Factory firmware on low power mode gives me approx. 1850watts @ 65th. This is on an unmodified S19 90th 126 chip.

My question is how can something that has no Dev fees run so inefficient??? Makes me wonder if it actually does mine to a Dev in the background… how would we know?? Any way to check?