After Samsung, now Xiaomi caught ‘cheating’ with smartphone performance

Samsung was found to have reduced performance on its latest Samsung Galaxy S22 flagship earlier this year. Now, Xiaomi has also been found to be doing the same with its latest Xiaomi 12 series smartphone. According to a search by Android Police, the Xiaomi smartphone showed a noticeable performance among the “spoofed” versions of the Geekbench benchmarking app. The Android Police report states that the Xiaomi 12 Pro and Xiaomi 12X get better performance profiles on apps it identifies as games or benchmarks. ,

According to Geekbench, phones affected by such behavior will be removed from its benchmark charts later this week. Android Police says that Xiaomi “Giving apps it detects as a game or benchmark a better performance profile and throttling performance for other apps.”

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The test results were different for different models, but in xiaomi 12 series, qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1The powered Xiaomi 12 Pro was found to be more affected by the throttling issue than the Qualcomm 888-powered Xiaomi 12X. Versions of the Geekbench app that the system identifies as Geekbench or Genshine Impact saw results with up to 50 percent better single-core performance. Xiaomi 12 Pro Compared to versions of the app that the system believed to be Netflix or Google Chrome. Still Xiaomi 12X Android Police’s report said that was affected to some extent.

There was also a change in performance when the phone correctly recognized the app as Geekbench. play store The version of the app saw higher results than the slightly different corporate version of the app. The Xiaomi 12X also saw a huge gap between game and benchmark performance, which the Xiaomi 12 Pro did not.

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The report states that Xiaomi is maximizing the performance of its smartphones by loading different profiles based on app-detection details such as package names only for games and benchmarking applications, while throttling performance to other less demanding apps. get profile.

Samsung was also recently found to be throttling the performance of its Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphones. The company later launched an update to fix the issue and the company’s CEO also apologized for the controversy. Samsung DeX CEO JH Han was speaking to shareholders and acknowledged that the company was unable to address customer concerns on the issue. He even bowed his head apologizing for showing seriousness on the matter.

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