Xiaomi has apparently been tweaking the performance of its smartphones to alter the results on certain benchmarking applications. A new report has found that the company tweaks performance to show better synthetic benchmark results.
Looks like Xiaomi is also making performance decisions based on application identifiers.
— John Poole (@jfpoole) March 27, 2022
The news arrives from a series of tweet from John Poole, who is a developer at GeekBench, a popular benchmarking platform. In the tweets, Poole stated that the Chinese tech giant’s handsets are making performance decisions based on application identifiers. In other words, the performance depends on the type of application being run on the device. Poole was using a Xiaomi 11 and found that the GeekBench scores were different when he ran the regular version of GeekBench and another build of GeekBench that was disguised as Fortnite.
In the single core tests, the device’s scores were around 30 percent lower on the disguised GeekBench version when compared to the regular build. Meanwhile, the multi core tests showcased results that were around 15 percent lower as well. He even shared a comparison between the two tests that is currently listed on the GeekBench website. Notably, this wasn’t the only case of performance being tweaked.
The issue did not affect just the Fortnite build. Apparently, the same performance tweaking can be observed in other games such as Genshin Impact as well. This means that Xiaomi has built identifiers into its devices to boost benchmark scores to showcase its smartphone’s raw performance, but in actual gaming scenarios, this performance is noticeably reduced.
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