Huawei Caught Cheating Benchmark Test

From past few years, many smartphone makers have been caught for trying to manipulate the benchmark scores by increasing thermal and power limits to boost their scores in common benchmark software. Previously Samsung, OnePlus, Meizu devices were caught for doing the same. Now once again, Huawei has been caught optimizing some of their smartphones to over-perform on benchmark tests.

Hence, Huawei’s three devices have been delisted from the benchmarking platforms such as UL Benchmarks, Futuremark and 3DMark. Till now, the delisted phones include Huawei P20 Pro, Nova 3, and Honor Play.

Earlier, AnandTech reported that the recent models of vendor Huawei and its sub-brand Honor are producing artificially high and misleading benchmark scores to achieve up to 47% better results.

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While running the 3DMark app on these delisted Huawei phones, these devices appear to use a hidden “Performance Mode” that overrides the devices’ usual power profile. In simple words, these devices are able to detect when the user is running a benchmark app and they increase their performance temporarily to obtain higher scores.

At the point when UL benchmarks ran an internal version of 3DMark, which Huawei’s devices couldn’t perceive the name of, the smartphones performed more terrible in the test. Which clearly indicates that these phones are designed just to cheat benchmark apps.

After this incident, Huawei has responded to this incident stating that it’s “planning to provide users with access to ‘Performance Mode’ so they can use the maximum power of their device when they need to”.

Furthermore, benchmarking app 3DMark has removed these Huawei’s phones rankings from its leaderboard and adorned their listings on its website stating “manufacturer has not complied with UL benchmark rules.”

Source – GizmoChina