Did Xiaomi just take a leaf out of OnePlus’ marketing book?įollow TechRadar India on Twitter (opens in new tab), Facebook (opens in new tab) and Instagram (opens in new tab) for the latest updates.In a similar case, another brand under BBK – Realme was recently caught doing something similar with Realme GT 5G and was eventually delisted by Antutu. While OnePlus did acknowledge it and promised a fix, it looks like the company did not learn from its past deeds. Last time when both OnePlus and Meizu were caught fudging the benchmark scores, devices from both the companies had been tweaked to show slightly higher benchmark scores. This, however, renders the benchmark scores useless since the tweaks specifically favour the benchmark applications. It claims that by throttling down the performance of most popular applications, the company wants to extend the battery backup on the phone. The publication has found various code snippets in the logs suggesting that the Chinese smartphone maker is deliberately locking the performance of Chrome, Twitter and other popular applications like Facebook, Zoom, Whatsapp, Tiktok, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Amazon, Linkedin, Discord, Netflix Candy crush saga, Adobe LightRoom Mobile, Dropbox, Mozilla, Twitch, Brave Browser, Pokemongo, Adobe Scan, VLC, Strava, Airbnb, Ubercab, the entire Microsoft Office suite and many more.Īs per Anandtech, the list mentioned above is not exhaustive and there could be way more applications on the OnePlus’ blacklist. “Chrome seemed to be suffering from extremely weird behaviour that at worst ended up with the browser only being able to use the SoC’s little Cortex-A55 cores,” the website quoted.Ĭhrome on the OnePlus 9 Pro scored 16 and 19.99 in the Speedometer 2.0 and Jetstream 2 while the Google Pixel 4 that comes with a way less powerful Snapdragon 765G chipset scored 48.7 and 55.50 in the same tests. OnePlus blacklisted most of the popular appsĪccording to Anandtech, OnePlus has blacklisted a lot of popular applications from the PlayStore from accessing the full potential of the flagship chipset from Qualcomm. TechRadar India has reached out to OnePlus and is yet to get a response from the company. On the OnePlus 9 Pro with its Snapdragon 888, one benchmark scored just 16.8 points, far lower than the similarly-specced Galaxy S21 Ultra and even underneath the Pixel 5 with its Snapdragon 765. Interestingly, OnePlus cites the need for striking a balance between performance, thermal efficiency, and battery longevity as the reason behind slowing down the apps, which is just shy of an admission that it didn't really do a good enough job with thermal design and power optimization on its latest handsets.If that is not all, Geekbench has said that it will test other OnePlus devices in its lab to check if the company has artificially tried to manipulate the benchmark scores. This particular behavior ensures that an app performs well in day-to-day life, even though it might affect the synthetic benchmark scores. The phones have been delisted for benchmark manipulation. ![]() ![]() In its statement shared with XDA-Developers, OnePlus mentions that the aforementioned system is an attempt to match an app’s processing requirements with the appropriate power allocation, ensuring that the apps perform smoothly without consuming too much power and leading to battery drain. OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro have been delisted from Geekbench. In fact, a majority of brands use a similar system to boost performance selectively for demanding scenarios such as gaming. But the odd case of performance throttling spotted on the OnePlus 9 Pro is not necessarily benchmark manipulation.
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