OnePlus, Meizu allegedly tweaked benchmark results for high performance

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.

A few years ago, Major smartphone makers including Samsung and HTC were also found tampering with the benchmark results by tweaking their smartphones. 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.

They found that OnePlus 3T’s processor did not relapse to its normal speeds after opening certain apps. The team also found that the chip functioned more aggressively in Geekbench. “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. It wasn’t based on the CPU workload, but rather on the app’s package name, which the hidden build could fool.”

OnePlus has admitted that it made few tweaks that made the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 chipset on the OnePlus 3T work aggressively in certain applications.

“In order to give users a better user experience in resource intensive apps and games, especially graphically intensive ones, we implemented certain mechanisms in the community and Nougat builds to trigger the processor to run more aggressively. The trigger process for benchmarking apps will not be present in upcoming OxygenOS builds on the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T.”
Meizu is yet to comment on the matter, but its MediaTek SoC powered Pro 6 smartphone was also found cheating the benchmark results.