Chinese smartphone makers OnePlus and Meizu have been reportedly “caught “cheating on benchmark scores for the OnePlus 3T and Meizu Pro 6 Plus handsets respectively. According to a report by XDA developers, “OnePlus (on the OnePlus 3T) was targeting these benchmarks by name, and was entering an alternate CPU scaling mode to pump up their benchmark scores.”
Meizu, on the other hand, “set their phones up so that the big cores rarely come online, even when in their ‘performance mode’, making the flagship processors that they put into their flagship phones act like midrange processors,” said the report. Also read: OnePlus 3T Review: A Worthy Successor to The OnePlus 3
Along with hardware specifications, benchmark scores have been traditionally used to rate performance of any particular Android handset. However, time and again, benchmark scores have proved to be unreliable. This is simply because, these scores can be tweaked to showcase superior performance.
Earlier, several OEMs including the likes of Sony, LG, HTC and Samsung were discovered to bump up benchmark scores.Also read: OnePlus 3T Launched at Rs 29,999: All You Need to Know
In this case, OnePlus has acknowledged and promised to stop targeting benchmarking apps with their benchmark cheating, according to the report.
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