![]() But I have never seen an SoC vendor effectively punt its responsibility to their OEMs like Huawei, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Oppo, Realme, Samsung, Vivo and Xiaomi. I have been a smartphone reviewer and have been running benchmarks on phones for over a decade and have seen lots of bad behavior. #BENCHMARKS FROM GEEKBENCH CHEATING ALLEGATIONS FULL#We believe that showcasing the full capabilities of a chipset in benchmarking tests is in line with the practices of other companies and gives consumers an accurate picture of device performance. Andrei also broke out a Chinese model of the Reno3 Pro with a Snapdragon 765G, but even though it was from the same manufacturer and the same model as the Helio P95 device, it did not exhibit the same behavior. Anandtech even reached out to UL to confirm their findings and they gave them an anonymized version of their PCMark benchmark to validate their results. Andrei found that with the cheating turned on and off that the performance difference in benchmarks was 30% and up to 75% in some subtests. But for some reason, the Chinese Reno 3 Pro with the faster SoC got worse benchmark scores than the European version with the Helio P95 and then he went deeper. ![]() His discovery started by getting two different phones, the OPPO Reno 3 Pro which ships with a MediaTek Helio P95 in Europe and The Reno 3 which ships with MediaTek’s latest and most powerful Dimensity 1000 chip in China. So, what did Anandtech’s Andrei Frumusanu find, exactly? He found that MediaTek was cheating on benchmarks by creating a whitelist of applications that would run the device in a special ‘Sports Mode’ that significantly boosts the performance of a device beyond it’s real world day to day capabilities and would be unsustainable in day to day usage. ![]()
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