MediaTek Caught Cheating in Benchmarks; Denies Allegations
Most smartphone buyers know besides little virtually performance benchmarks to care about them, and the ones who do, know that synthetic benchmark scores demand to exist taken with a grain of salt at the all-time of times. However, that doesn't seem to be deterring tech companies from resorting to artificial (and oft unethical) ways of inflating benchmark scores.
The problem was thus far believed to accept been express to smartphone vendors, with Samsung, OnePlus and Huawei being some of the prominent companies to have been caught up in this controversy from time to time. Even so, AnandTech at present claims that chipmaker MediaTek is besides guilty of fudging benchmark scores of some of its smartphone SoCs.
The blog says it started its investigation when it found that the European version of the Oppo Reno 3 Pro with the older Helio P95 chipset was returning significantly higher benchmark scores than what was expected from a Cortex-A75 class SoC. Still, what set the alarm bells ringing was the Chinese version of the Reno3 with the newer and supposedly faster Dimensity 1000L chipset, performing much worse in those aforementioned benchmark tests.
As it turns out, MediaTek was specifically preventing the benchmarking apps from activating the flake's thermal throttling mechanism and then as to return higher scores than they would in existent-world scenarios. Equally per the report, the phone's power_whitelist_cfg.xml file had a list of popular applications, including some of the aforementioned benchmark apps, with various power direction tweaks practical to them.
Some of the common benchmarking apps found on the list include the likes of PCMark, GeekBench, AnTuTu, 3DBench and Quadrant alongside a few Chinese benchmark apps. The report farther says that like configurations were found on a whole agglomeration of other MediaTek devices, including the Vivo S1 with the Helio P65, the Xiaomi (Redmi) Note viii Pro with the Helio G90, the Realme C3 with the Helio G70 and the Sony XAI with the Helio P20, amidst others.
MediaTek has denied all allegations of cheating, saying that its power management tweaks enable benchmark apps to better represent the hardware capabilities of their SoCs. In a argument to AnandTech, the company said: "MediaTek follows accepted manufacture standards and is confident that benchmarking tests accurately represent the capabilities of our chipsets … We believe that showcasing the full capabilities of a chipset in benchmarking tests is in line with the practices of other companies and gives consumers an authentic picture of device performance".
Source: https://beebom.com/mediatek-caught-cheating-in-benchmarks-denies-allegations/
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