Benchmarks from geekbench over cheating full#
Benchmarks from geekbench over cheating android#

Starting off with weird benchmark numbersĪs always with these stories, it all starts out when discovering some weird oddity when going over the usual review process. This is perhaps to improve battery life at the expense of performance, but it does mean that the regular benchmark results are somewhat useless for user experience.

Benchmarks from geekbench over cheating full#

We have confirmed that (a) benchmarks or (b) unknown apps get full performance most of the top popular non-benchmark apps get notably reduced performance. We have detected that OnePlus is blacklisting popular applications away from the its fastest cores, causing slow down in typical workloads such as web browsing. It’s something so unusual and baffling, as it truly blurs the line between battery optimisation, performance cheating, and general device specification misrepresentation. Today’s piece fits within this class of articles, and more specifically covers OnePlus’ newest OnePlus 9 Pro flagship phone, and how its performance behaviour indeed manages to be extremely unique in the current mobile landscape.

Benchmarks from geekbench over cheating android#

They're (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android BenchmarksĮvery now and then, these topics always resurface as vendors attempt to “differentiate” their devices amongst the crowd – it’s a repeated process which unfortunately by now no longer really surprises us when it happens.

Huawei & Honor's Recent Benchmarking Behaviour: A Cheating Headache.

Mobile Benchmark Cheating: When a SoC Vendor Provides It As A Service.In the past, when this relationship between benchmarks and real-world apps was broken, we’ve always attempted to expose such behaviour in order to have the vendors correct their ways, which lead to quite a few articles over the years: Benchmarks and performance measurements are a main-stay of evaluation of devices and integral parts of the review process for a lot of people – including both actual consumers as well as publications or analysts as ourselves.