First Samsung, now Xiaomi. Both manufacturers used systems on their smartphones that partially slowed the smartphones down if no benchmark was recognized. Samsung was already thrown out of the GeekBench, Xiaomi was threatened with the same fate. And now it's official, Xiaomi is also out of GeekBench.
When reviewing two phones from the current 12 series, the 12 Pro equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is more affected by performance throttling than the 12X equipped with a Snapdragon 888.
Versions of the Geekbench app that recognize the system as either Geekbench or Genshin Impact scored up to 50% better single-core performance on the 12 Pro compared to versions of the app that recognize the system for Netflix or Chrome stopped - a significant drop in performance. Even the 12X was affected to some extent, with a similar but smaller difference in results that was still larger than any expected margin of error.
Interestingly, even when the app was correctly identified as Geekbench, performance varied. The version of the app distributed through the Play Store performed better than a slightly different enterprise version of the app that was throttled. The Xiaomi 12X also showed a bigger difference between gaming and benchmark performance that the 12 Pro didn't see. This could indicate a more complex throttling system or different performance profiles depending on the base hardware or phone model, since the chipsets of the two devices are different.
"It's disappointing to see another device manufacturer mislead consumers by reducing application performance but not benchmark performance. We are investigating which Xiaomi phones will be affected and we expect to start removing Xiaomi phones from the Android benchmark chart later this week."
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So GeekBench has now banned Xiaomi from GeekBench as well. Not that such cheating like a few years ago will become fashionable again.
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