

“OnePlus was makings it CPU governor more aggressive, resulting in a practical artificial clock speed floor in Geekbench that wasn’t there in the hidden Geekbench build.


ONEPLUS BENCHMARKS FROM GEEKBENCH CHEATING ANDROID
The team also found that the chip functioned more aggressively in Geekbench. A few years ago, many high-profile Android device makers were caught cheating in benchmark tests. Update: The story has been updated with OnePlus statement Performance benchmarking platform Geekbench has delisted the OnePlus 9 Pro and OnePlus 9 smartphones after a report by AnandTech revealed. They found that OnePlus 3T’s processor did not relapse to its normal speeds after opening certain apps. In the case of the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T, evidence of the cheating can also be found in the devices’ firmware, in the form of a hard-coded list of benchmarks: Geekbench, AnTuTu, Androbench. Benchmarking website Geekbench along with a few XDA forum seniors joined forces to monitor how Qualcomm chips inside OnePlus smartphones artificially enhances the CPU clock speed when opening specific apps. Chinese smartphone makers, OnePlus and Meizu have been found guilty of artificially tweaking the performance of chipsets within their smartphones to score high results in various benchmark apps and show-off their superiority.Ī few years ago, Major smartphone makers including Samsung and HTC were also found tampering with the benchmark results by tweaking their smartphones.
