![benchmarks from geekbench over cheating benchmarks from geekbench over cheating](https://abgeeauzno.cloudimg.io/v7/pokde.net/assets/uploads/2021/07/oneplus-9-pro-geekbench-cheating-cover-1000x667.jpg)
Shortly after the initial article from Anandtech was published, Geekbench - a popular benchmarking app has delisted the Oneplus 9 and 9 pro from their Android Benchmark chart. OnePlus is allegedly keeping CPU frequencies of cores in OnePlus 5 higher so as to obtain highest results in benchmark. But to be fair OnePlus isn’t the only company caught doing so. OnePlus 5 scored over 6,700 in multi-core performance on Play Store version of Geekbench, while the smartphone didn't manage to reach 6,5000 when tested on site's hidden build of app. Infect Oneplus has been caught before in 2017 with their Oneplus 5 cheating on benchmarking apps where these apps were allowed to run at a maximum frequency of the CPU with no regard to battery and thermals to score the highest in the benchmark charts. An obvious omission in this list of blacklisted apps is the benchmarking apps. Mario Serrafero, editor-in-chief at XDA, noticed some. Android Police says Xiaomi is offering apps. Thanks to some investigative work by the team over at XDA Developers, we now know that the OnePlus 3T has been cheating on benchmarking tools. Using the energy-efficient cores goes a long way in improving a phone’s battery life and many none trivial and background tasks are generally supposed to run on the energy-efficient cores. According to Geekbench, phones affected by such behavior will be removed from its benchmark charts later this week. While there is nothing wrong with sharing the workload with all the cores, this app-based performance cherry-picking isn’t how it’s supposed to be used. Sometimes forced to use the other performance core and many times the even slower energy-efficient ones.
Benchmarks from geekbench over cheating software#
While testing it was found that in the phone’s kernel (the software that has complete control over everything), Oneplus has specifically stopped some popular apps from using the X-1 chip. This is the fastest core on the chip and the other 3 are also fast but as fast as the prime core. The Snapdragon 888 has 4 high performance and 4 energy-saving cores, out of the 4 high performance, it has one “Prime Core” based on a ARM Cortex-X1. Modern processors like the snapdragon 888 found in the OnePlus 9 series have multiple cores, some high performance optimized for best performance, and some energy-efficient optimized for lower power consumption.