ONEPLUS DELETED FROM GEEKBENCH CHEATING SERIES

OnePlus has just announced that they won’t be sending the Hasselblad-toting OnePlus 9 series to DxOMark for testing. Email Optimisation tools Popular benchmark site Geekbench has removed OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts due to allegations that the company designed Oxygen OS optimization tools in such a way. It’s when GPU benchmarks are run that the heat becomes too much the back of the phone. It seems that realme and other BBK companies are now shying away from official benchmarking platforms. Interestingly, in CPU-only benchmarks like Geekbench, the OnePlus 5 didn’t heat up that much faster. This is quite an interesting decision as a lot of people still refer to benchmark scores when picking out a device, especially when it comes to flagship devices. However don’t expect realme to do anything soon, as realme’s Chief Marketing Officer, Xu Chase, has decided to take it to Weibo to announce that all upcoming realme products in China will no longer tout benchmark scores and instead allow “the product to speak for itself”. This isn’t the first time OnePlus has been in hot water for benchmark cheating, although. The removal is due to allegations that OnePlus designed Oxygen OS optimization tools in such a way that Geekbench views them as cheating.

The JPG decoding image has also been tampered with mosaic color blocks to let the realme GT finish processing them faster, resulting in an inflated UX score.Īntutu has now given realme 3 months to resolve the issue before it can be relisted on the benchmark charts, failing which will see the realme GT removed permanently from Antutu’s benchmark charts. Popular benchmark site Geekbench has removed OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts. The realme GT’s modified benchmark files uses thread delays to run the multi-threaded tests on its high-performance cores as much as possible, allowing it to net a higher CPU score. Below you can see a frequency over time plot for the OnePlus 5’s little cluster when running GeekBench 4 from the Play Store, and the same configuration running a build of GeekBench 4 stripped.

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