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![]() The company makes its phone switch to bigger cores when certain apps (read benchmarking apps) are running. Same is the case with Meizu’s Pro 6 Plus. It wasn’t based on the CPU workload, but rather on the app’s package name, which the hidden build could fool.” XDA further added. “ 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. “ Our editor-in-chief, Mario Serrafero, was using Qualcomm Trepn and the Snapdragon Performance Visualizer to monitor how Qualcomm “boosts” the CPU clock speed when opening apps, and noticed that certain apps on the OnePlus 3T were not falling back down to their normal idling speeds after opening.” said XDA Developers in a report. As soon as the device detected these kind of apps, the clock speeds were increased to get better performance from the processor. OnePlus was found to be intentionally increasing the clock speeds on the 3T when benchmarking apps like AnTuTu and Geekbench were opened. Smartphone manufacturers OnePlus and Meizu are caught cheating the benchmarking apps in order to appear better in terms of scores. This has happened in the past and it has happened once again. Well, OEMs do know this, and hence, they often indulge in cheating these benchmarking apps to post higher score and make their device look better performing of the lot. The higher the score, the better its performance would be. After this discovery, OnePlus should take a hard look in the mirror and make changes to how its devices perform accordingly, otherwise more disgruntled OnePlus smartphone owners will be added to the tally.If you have read smartphone reviews, you must have noticed that reviewers often make use of benchmarking apps like AnTuTu, Geekbench, GFXBench and more to get an idea of how powerful the device is. Unfortunately, after this episode, Geekbench says that it has banned the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro from its platform, which comes as no surprise. OnePlus is known for delivering quality software on its phones. However, excessive battery drain should result from software optimizations and not at the expense of performance. I’ll be running the same test within an undetected browser such as Vivaldi to see what it ends up at – but I suspect it’ll be notably worse for the OP9Pro.” In our web-browsing battery life test, even with this performance crippling mechanism in place, with both devices at 120Hz under the same test conditions, the OnePlus 9 Pro achieves 11.75 hours of runtime, versus the S21 Ultra’s 13.98 hours, the latter which runs at the SoC’s full performance potential. The OnePlus 9 Pro, even though it advertises itself as using the latest LTPO OLED technology as Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra for example, still suffers from notably worse power characteristics and worse power efficiency. “The only sensible rationale for such a decision is to improve a device’s power efficiency and battery life. When running the benchmark a third time, the Cortex-A55 cores were stressed, resulting in a horrendous score of 16.8. Instead, the load was being handled by the three Cortex-A78 cores. The conclusion made was that the Cortex-X1 core was not being at all. When Anandtech ran a browser-based benchmark called Speedometer 2.0 on the OnePlus 9 Pro, it managed a score of 61.5, which is lower compared to flagships featuring the same Snapdragon 888. OnePlus 9 Pro Scored Considerably Less in a New Performance Test Company Could Be Limiting the Device’s Capabilities to Enhance Power Efficiency ![]() According to the latest analysis, both the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro were caught cheating and have been banned from Geekbench as a result. This will include mocking a feature of a rival smartphone, or lack thereof, or in OnePlus’ case, manipulating benchmarks. Smartphone makers use different tactics in an attempt to convince various customer bases that their offerings are miles better than the competition.
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