Huawei caught cheating benchmark test for P20

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Huawei has been caught optimizing some of its top smartphones to over-perform on benchmark tests. On Tuesday, AnandTech discovered that Huawei’s P20 had been programmed to maximize performance specifically when running 3DMark, a popular benchmarking app. Today, the company behind 3DMark followed up with a statement saying that it had confirmed the findings and would delist the P20, as well as three other Huawei phones with similar behavior, from its benchmark leaderboards.
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Quick read at The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/9/6/17828534/huawei-benchmarks-rigged-p20-3dmark-ai

Longer read at Anandtech: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13318/huawei-benchmark-cheating-headache
 
hmm not good publicity, unbox therapy also had a vid recently where they were caught using a dslr behind the scenes while trying to show off pics from their latest phone (p20 pro i think).

edit: here's the link to the vid:
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Said feature already rolled out. My P20 Lite received the update 2 days ago. Only some gaming applications feel smoother, but hardly something to go cray about.
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It looks a marketing flop. On the other side, lets leave alone games and special application like slow-motion video: Is the phone benchmark perfomance really reflecting user experience? I see the phone on the top reaching 6319 3DMarks and a top performing phones based on SD-425 are scoring around 65. It is roughly 100 times slower. It sounds to me completely unrealistic.

Manufacters are cheating because they can. If I were taking purchasing decision based on benchmarks, I would buy (perhaps) the most expensive phones. .LOL.
Isn't it what cellphone makers want?
 
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