oneplus benchmarks from geekbench cheating

#Oneplus benchmarks from geekbench cheating full#

There was still some thermal throttling going on, just to a smaller degree. There the minimum frequencies of both the “big” and the “little” clusters were raised. The OnePlus 3 cheat was of a similar nature, though not identical. The official statement from OnePlus claims that this way it shows the performance potential of the 5. Note that the “secret build” listed in the chart has a different package name, so it isn’t detected. The OnePlus 5, on the other hand, is an entirely different beast it resorts to the kind of obvious, calculated cheating mechanisms we saw in flagships in the early days of Android, an approach. Not all benchmarks are affected, here’s the list of benchmarks that OnePlus checks for. It’s when GPU benchmarks are run that the heat becomes too much – the back of the phone was 50° C! Note that GPU clocks aren’t changed, but keeping the “little” cluster at max speed is enough to push thermals over the limit. Interestingly, in CPU-only benchmarks like Geekbench, the OnePlus 5 didn’t heat up that much faster. With cheating disabled, the “little” cluster spent only a quarter of the time at max frequency, so this also makes performance more consistent.

That’s enough to push the multi-core benchmark results as high as they are, single-core results are unchanged (still, most people just look at the multi-core result).

The “big” cluster is not affected by this. This isn’t an overclock, but it does disable thermal throttling. When a benchmark is detected, the 5 locks the “little” cluster of its Snapdragon 835 chipset at its highest possible clockspeed – 1.9GHz.

#Oneplus benchmarks from geekbench cheating full#

Hit the source link for the full details, here’s the TL DR version. The OnePlus 5 was caught cheating on benchmarks in order to achieve its chart-topping performance.Ī detailed investigation by XDA-Developers discovered the mechanism of the cheat.