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Because, getting this figure involves the app running a few resource intensive tasks to get a final score. Benchmarks give us a figure which we can compare to determine which one’s better than the other. It’s really hard to quantify the performance of a smartphone in any other way. The answer directly points to our needless obsession with benchmarks. Given the number of companies that have tried tweaking their scores for benchmark, the fundamental question is why they are doing this, even now.

So, the only reason why this was made such a big deal is because Huawei didn’t seem to get the memo that this was unacceptable, even in 2018. This list includes the big names such as Samsung, LG, Asus, HTC, Meizu, and even OnePlus. History has shown us that almost every manufacturer has been found tweaking their smartphones for better benchmark scores. That being said, I can’t personally crucify Huawei for trying to score high on benchmarks. That’s not really a good enough reason to push your smartphones beyond its limits. The big reason why companies like to optimise their smartphones for benchmark is to score higher than the competition. Apart from issues like overheating, such a level of performance decreases efficiency significantly, making the whole experience impractical for daily usage.Īnother issue with this type of performance optimisation is the motive. However, what’s really the big issue here is that Huawei had tweaked its newer flagships to detect specific benchmarking apps (3DMark in this case) to run the phone at an unrealistic performance level. For example, new age phones can often detect gaming apps and switch to peak performance mode for the best user experience. In this age of AI, it’s not uncommon for smartphones to identify specific type of apps to boost performance. We have already talked about this here but the story in short is that Huawei P20 and a few other top flagships from the company were identifying benchmarking apps to extensively increase their performance with the primary goal of scoring way higher than in a traditional use case scenario.

Huawei was recently caught by AnandTech optimising some of their smartphones like Huawei P20 to over perform in a specific benchmarking app, 3DMark. Things like false advertisements, false specs by even established companies are not unheard of, but today let’s talk about something that Huawei was caught doing - benchmark cheating aka benchmark optimisation. We have seen plenty of cases where a company was busted doing something really stupid just to get an edge over its competitor.

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According to the team’s research, Oxygen OS apparently limits the performance of some popular Android apps - but none of those apps are benchmark suites.More often than not, companies have to play dirty in the race to the top.

Original article, J(11:16 AM ET): Yesterday, AnandTechposted some information about “weird behavior” it spotted with the OnePlus 9 Pro. So far, Geekbench has not reinstated the previously removed OnePlus 9 benchmarks. While this may impact the devices’ performance in some benchmarking apps, our focus as always is to do what we can to improve the performance of the device for our users. This has helped to provide a smooth experience while reducing power consumption. As a result of this feedback, our R&D team has been working over the past few months to optimize the devices’ performance when using many of the most popular apps, including Chrome, by matching the app’s processor requirements with the most appropriate power.

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Following the launch of the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro in March, some users told us about some areas where we could improve the devices’ battery life and heat management. Our top priority is always delivering a great user experience with our products, based in part on acting quickly on important user feedback.

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