The differences Benchmark applications nowadays, serve the purpose of being able to measure the performance of a device.
ΟSmartphone makers place special emphasis on these applications as the higher the score the device receives, in theory, the better performance it will have compared to any other.
But this does not always happen, as according to a post made on Twitter by a user, the Xiaomi modifies the performance settings based on the running application.
Some tests have been done on Geekbench 5, and renamed Geekbench on the device to appear as the well-known Fortnite game, and this resulted in the 30% drop in the performance of a kernel and 15% to all. But why is this happening?
Some of them performance settings that the devices have, have special overt or covert parameters for all types of applications Benchmark, so that the device gives the maximum possible performance, in contrast to the various games, social media applications and so on. where they run with lower performance.
As a result, the various applications that we use on a daily basis, whether they are a game, a social media app, are negatively affected by this drop in performance.
Is Xiaomi really "stealing" in the Benchmarks?
There are some reports that saw the publicity a few weeks ago that its service Samsung Game Optimization Service, drops the performance of many applications. A report that turned out to be true. This service also allows only a few popular ones Benchmark applications to take advantage of the high performance of the device, unlike others.
Unfortunately, this phenomenon also applies to its devices Xiaomi. Specifically, the application “Battery and Performance” which exists in its various devices Xiaomi, seems to negatively affect any application that has nothing to do with Benchmark.
But how is this done?
After analyzing the application code Battery and Performance, there are references to the names of various Benchmark applications. Thus, once such an application is run and running, it will be allowed to use the high performance while it is running.
We know that such practices are intended to deceive users. Not a few people buy a device based on the performance it has recorded in various Benchmarks, and later they are disappointed when they find out that the overall performance of their device is worse than they expect.
This kind of "Cheating" practice followed by the manufacturers should stop. High performance should not be exclusive to Benchmarking applications but also to those we use on a daily basis. As users, we are entitled to have a good experience of our devices.
This is how the scam was detected:
- Initially two benchmarks were made at Geekbench 5 to Xiaomi Mi 11
- On a benchmark, the Geekbench 5 ran normally without any modification
- The Benchmark results were as follows
- 1129 Single-Core score
- 3714 Multi-Core score
- The Benchmark results were as follows
- On the other benchmark, the Geekbench 5 he was running disguised like some other application
- The Benchmark results were as follows
- 791 Single-Core score
- 3125 Multi-Core score
- The Benchmark results were as follows
It is obvious that in Benchmark in which the Geekbench 5 is disguised as some other application, the score is much lower.
The names of other similar Benchmark applications that allow high performance are:
- Master Lu for Android
- LDS Benchmark
- LDS 3D Bench
- Antutu Benchmark
- AnTuTu Video Tester
- 3DRating for OpenGL ES 2.0
- AnTuTu Tester
- AnTuTu 3DBench
- Speed test by Ookla
- AnTuTu Lite
- AnTuTu AI Benchmark
- Almark
- GFXBench Benchmark
- Androbench
- Geekbench 5
- Geekbench 4
- AI Benchmark
- GFLOPS GPU
- AndSPECmod
Such scams are only intended to deceive the user and is a phenomenon that has existed for years. THE Samsung and Huawei are some of these companies that do exactly the same thing. The fact that now the Xiaomi is quite frustrating.
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