oneplus benchmarks from geekbench cheating

#Oneplus benchmarks from geekbench cheating series#

These development efforts ran the whole gamut, from setting clock speed floors, to forcing the clock speeds to their maximum settings, to even creating special higher power states and special clock speeds that were only available when benchmarking, with these efforts often resulting in just a couple percentage point increases in benchmark. They were all investing time and money into attempts to eke a little bit extra performance out of their phones in benchmarks, in ways that wouldn’t have any positive effect on everyday usage, in an attempt to fool users into thinking that their phones were faster than they actually were. At the time, the investigation found that almost every manufacturer except for Google/Motorola were engaging in benchmark cheating.

#Oneplus benchmarks from geekbench cheating series#

OEMs of all sizes (including Samsung, HTC, Sony, and LG) took part in this arms race of attempting to fool users without getting caught, but thankfully they eventually stopped their benchmark cheating after some frank discussions with industry experts and journalists.īack in 2013, it was discovered that the Samsung was artificially boosting its GPU clock speeds in certain applications, sparking a series of investigations into benchmark cheating across the whole range of manufacturers. A few years ago there was a considerable uproar, when numerous major manufacturers were caught cheating on benchmarks.