Geekbench deleted OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro from its database yesterday, because OnePlus throttled most known and popular applications (even first-party applications developed by itself), but released the benchmarking software. Performance limitations. Now that the company has responded, here is its full content:
Our top priority is to always provide a good user experience for our products, partly based on taking quick action on important user feedback. After the launch of the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro in March, some users told us that we can improve the battery life and heat management of the device in some ways. As a result of this feedback, our R&D team has been working on optimizing the device’s performance when using many of the most popular applications (including Chrome) in the past few months and matching the application’s processor requirements with the most suitable Match the power. This helps provide a smooth experience while reducing power consumption. Although this may affect the performance of the device in some benchmark applications, our focus is always to do our best to improve the performance of the device for our users.
AnandTech yesterday said the author has noticed OxygenOS (ie a plus mobile phone overseas edition system) basically does not allow the most popular and well-known applications, including its own system applications, using Snapdragon 888 chip large core. This performance throttling seems to be achieved through the use of blacklists.
Although the survey did not find the actual list in the code, through testing dozens of applications, things are very clear-unless it is a relatively unknown application, Otherwise, any application on your OnePlus 9/9 Pro will automatically get this kind of behavior. The rules are based on the name of the running application package, not its behavior and actual performance.
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This last point is why Geekbench feels that this is equivalent to a manipulation benchmark, although not manipulation in the traditional sense. In the past, many companies were found to have unlocked special high-performance modes when running benchmark tests on their phones.
That is direct manipulation because you can’t get the same pattern in normal daily use. But this is the problem. Although OnePlus’s approach here is exactly the opposite, the end result is the same, that is, the phone will use “more” hardware resources in benchmark tests, instead of when you might use it day after day.
Of course, there is still a need to discuss how accurate the benchmark test describes the performance in real life, but in the case of OnePlus, this description is very untrue. This starting point is likely to be related to the saving of battery life, but we have to wonder why the company must do this secretly instead of telling its community that it is doing it until it is caught and delisted.
Or better yet, why not let the user choose, such as providing a default balanced performance mode, but let the user manually select the high-performance mode, and show them a warning that the battery is easy to drain if they need it. Although OnePlus did not express it to the public, the media is also considering whether this is related to the low degree of battery friendliness of the Snapdragon 888 chipset itself. Or maybe it’s the screen problem (but isn’t the whole point of LTPO technology and switching to as low as 1 Hz exactly to save battery?).
No matter what the reason is (OPPO /OnePlus/Realme seems to have encountered obstacles in the 65W charging battery capacity, for example, none of these brother brands can charge so fast, the battery capacity exceeds 4500 mAh), this can definitely be handled. Better and more public, not in a way that makes many people feel cheated by a company that sells them top hardware, and then prevents them from fully using these hardware resources.
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