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. It cannot explain how their P95 processor delivered much poorer performance on an anonymised PCMark benchmark.
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Their explanation that their chipsets are designed to intelligently adapt to computing pattern is just a lame excuse. The official statement from OnePlus claims that this way it shows the performance potential of the 5. MediaTek was caught RED HANDED in the act of cheating at benchmarks. Note that the “secret build” listed in the chart has a different package name, so it isn’t detected. 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.
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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. News that Apple hasn’t modified M1 performance for the iPad Air 5 has to be a devastating blow for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S8 ambitions. The press usually relies too much on benchmarks but they at least tell you that a subject A is better or worse than subject B. Galaxy Tab S8 line excluded from Geekbench 5. When a benchmark is detected, the 5 locks the “little” cluster of its Snapdragon 835 chipset at its highest possible clockspeed – 1.9GHz. A significant step forward in Geekbench 4.
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Hit the source link for the full details, here’s the TL DR version. Huawei smartphones use advanced technologies such as AI to optimize the performance of hardware, including the CPU, GPU and NPU. 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. Huawei always prioritizes the user experience rather than pursuing high benchmark scores especially since there isn’t a direct connection between smartphone benchmarks and user experiences.