Xiaomi in steaming hot water with Geekbench for fudging its numbers

31 March, 2022 Xiaomi

 

We're certain that a great deal of organizations couldn't imagine anything better than to have the option to gloat that their phones are the most impressive contrasted with the opposition. That can't generally be valid, however it appears to be that it probably won't have prevented Xiaomi from attempting to fudge the numbers to make it seem as though their phones are performing great.

 

As per an itemized report from Android Police, it appears to be that Xiaomi was found attempting to control the Geekbench scores by utilizing altered forms of the benchmarking application. It appears to be that when the application perceives applications that are arranged as games or as a benchmarking application, it will help its exhibition by choking the presentation of other applications.

 

Xiaomi in steaming hot water with Geekbench for fudging its numbers

 

While they couldn't figure out how precisely Xiaomi's choking functions, the report recommends that the organization stacked various profiles in light of identifiers like the application's bundle names. After it was uncovered to Geekbench that a portion of these numbers could have been fudged, the stage declared that they will be it were impacted to delist the phones that.

 

Something said to Android Police by Geekbench organizer and president John Poole:

 

"It's frustrating to see one more gadget producer deceive purchasers by decreasing application execution yet not benchmark execution. We are examining which Xiaomi handsets are impacted and hope to begin delisting Xiaomi handsets from the Android Benchmark outline in the not so distant future."

 

Xiaomi isn't the only one to attempt to control the scores. Samsung was as of late gotten too, bringing about a few of their gadgets likewise being delisted. OnePlus was additionally gotten last year, where both the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro were brought down from the benchmarking site.

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