OnePlus 9 Benchmarks Deleted From Geekbench Over Cheating Allegations (androidauthority.com) 27
Popular benchmark site Geekbench has removed OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts due to allegations that the company designed Oxygen OS optimization tools in such a way that they could be viewed as cheating. Android Authority reports: Yesterday, AnandTech posted some information about "weird behavior" it spotted with the OnePlus 9 Pro. According to the team's research, Oxygen OS apparently limits the performance of some popular Android apps -- but none of those apps are benchmark suites. Geekbench, one of the more popular benchmarking sites, took these allegations seriously. After conducting its own investigation, Geekbench recently announced that it has removed all OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts. Geekbench, one of the more popular benchmarking sites, took these allegations seriously. After conducting its own investigation, Geekbench recently announced that it has removed all OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts. Geekbench called Oxygen OS's behavior a form of "benchmark manipulation." OnePlus has yet to issue a statement on the matter. In some of our own testing, we found that AnandTech's data is on the mark. We found that the OnePlus 9 series limits the performance of Google Chrome while older OnePlus phones do not. OnePlus issued a statement to Android Authority addressing the matter: "Our top priority is always delivering a great user experience with our products, based in part on acting quickly on important user feedback. Following the launch of the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro in March, some users told us about some areas where we could improve the devices' battery life and heat management. As a result of this feedback, our R&D team has been working over the past few months to optimize the devices' performance when using many of the most popular apps, including Chrome, by matching the app's processor requirements with the most appropriate power. This has helped to provide a smooth experience while reducing power consumption. While this may impact the devices' performance in some benchmarking apps, our focus as always is to do what we can to improve the performance of the device for our users."
This is reminiscent of when the company was caught pushing the OnePlus 5's performance capabilities when the OS detected a benchmark app. This resulted in artificially inflated scores that users would not see during real-world usage.
This is reminiscent of when the company was caught pushing the OnePlus 5's performance capabilities when the OS detected a benchmark app. This resulted in artificially inflated scores that users would not see during real-world usage.
VW engineers (Score:2, Funny)
Not sure what to think (Score:4, Insightful)
The problem then comes down to the fact that the results of the benchmark would be valid, as any actions that meet the specific criteria would see the boost. But, it also means that the benchmark results would be even less relevant.
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Re:Not sure what to think (Score:4, Interesting)
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I agree that intent is the key issue here. But I also think that OnePlus has to be careful about how they let users take control of balancing power and battery life. Most consumers of electronics are notoriously uninterested in learning about the product they just bought. They're interested in their expectations being met. I think OnePlus would need to be concerned about the few people who max performance on a game or some other app and then go on SM to complain vociferously about how shitty the phone's bat
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You are not a jury in a court of law on this.
There isn't any real need to be non-bias about OnePlus intentions on abuse. It comes down to you as someone who may buy one of their products or not. If their benchmarks scores cannot be trusted for real world comparison with its competitors would you buy the product or not?
Cell phones while rather inexpensive for the value they provide you in general, are still not cheap, and if you are going to get a new device, their price point is often high enough to not
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Re: Not sure what to think (Score:2)
Itâ(TM)s âoelogicalâ in that itâ(TM)s a marketing speak way of saying âoethe device canâ(TM)t maintain the amount of power draw we allow in benchmarks, so we âoptimisedâ(TM) the power draw to a sustainable level in the apps we think users will use for a long time.â
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Like a lot of things in life, It isn't what you do, your intentions, or the rightness of the ideology, but how you do it.
Reducing performance to extend battery life is a good thing, but you should let us know that it is happening, so we can choose to get a new battery, vs thinking our device is just getting slow.
Having the device speed up on the apps that request extra speed is a good thing too, but we need to know that is happening and if it may tradeoff battery life or overall life of the product, as well
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At work we have a ticket tracking system. Upper management runs reports on it as general benchmarks on the activity and effectiveness of the IT Departments (granted it isn't the only one, but it is a factor). We one of the metrics is how long does it take for us to work on a case. We had found one department had installed a secondary ticket tracking system, and they used that instead of the official one, so what they would do is when a ticket comes in they would close it on the official system, and open
Autoduping (Score:1)
Geekbench, one of the more popular benchmarking sites, took these allegations seriously. After conducting its own investigation, Geekbench recently announced that it has removed all OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts.
Geekbench, one of the more popular benchmarking sites, took these allegations seriously. After conducting its own investigation, Geekbench recently announced that it has removed all OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts.
Geekbench, one of the more popular benchmarking sites, took these allegations seriously. After conducting its own investigation, Geekbench recently announced that it has removed all OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts.
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OnePlus has yet to issue a statement on the matter
OnePlus issued a statement to Android Authority addressing the matter
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Hmmm. (Score:3)
So, do Android Authority authors get paid by the word?
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Yet they let iPhone to remain? (Score:2, Interesting)
Fair and honest..
Re:Yet they let iPhone to remain? (Score:5, Informative)
Most processors throttle up for a short time, and then throttle back when they get too hot. Intel for instance call this "turbo boost".
In many cases, applications which have high processor demands are bursty so the temporary overclocking allows those actions requiring more resources to complete quicker.
ULPT (Score:2)
1. Install benchmark
2. Keep it forever
3. Profit!!