Nu har ännu en fuskande Android-tillverkare tagits på bar gärning med att försöka manipulera benchmark-tester. Den här gången är det OnePlus 3T som visat sig innehålla funktioner för att försöka lura testprogram.
För några år sedan ertappades Sony, Samsung, LG och HTC med att försöka att lura testprogrammen. Några år senare, 2013, så avslöjades att Samsung med att göra detsamma – slå på fuskfunktioner så snart ett etsprogram upptäcktes.
A few years ago there was a considerable uproar, when numerous major manufacturers were caught cheating on benchmarks. 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.
Back 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. At the time, the investigation found that almost every manufacturer except for Google/Motorola were engaging in benchmark cheating. 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 wouldnt have any positive effect on everyday usage, in an attempt to fool users into thinking that their phones were faster than they actually were. 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.
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