Huawei benchmark cheating? Anandtech examines.

[ZestyJalapeno]

9 hours ago, Magnetorheological said:

Unacceptable! It's time for me to chuck my P20 Pro out the window!

I shall be there to catch it, that triple rear cam is the sauce

[Commodus]

9 hours ago, LAwLz said:

3DMark has started delisting Huawei devices from their website because of this.

If you ask me, that's a shame that they are being delisted. Even if the scores were artificially inflated, it would have given a rough indicator of how well they performed.

Then again, hopefully this will make Huawei stop cheating and then they will be allowed back.

Huawei wouldn't learn its lesson if the benchmarks stayed up, so delisting its phones was really the only viable option.

[DrMacintosh]

On 9/4/2018 at 6:25 PM, dizmo said:

Does anyone really pay attention to phone benchmarks?
I'm all about mobile tech. I love phones, and always look forward to releases. Even I don't give a shit about benchmarks though.

Have you seen any of the media coverage around any new phone? All anyone talks about is how close a phone gets to beating the latest Apple A series SoC. 

[DrMacintosh]

20 hours ago, LAwLz said:

3DMark has started delisting Huawei devices from their website because of this.

If you ask me, that's a shame that they are being delisted. Even if the scores were artificially inflated, it would have given a rough indicator of how well they performed.

Then again, hopefully this will make Huawei stop cheating and then they will be allowed back.

I mean they aren’t giving that performance anywhere else in the device, so 3D Mark saying their benchmark is indicative of the phones performance would be lying and would hurt their brand. 

[DrMacintosh]

So I guess we can add this to the lists of other reasons not to buy a Chinese phone. 

 

Why even cheat? I know that users like to foam at the mouth over benchmarks (yet some people who are “all about the specs” don’t buy iPhones for some reason), but I doubt it would be a big hit to your sales to be just average. It is certainly going to hurt your sales to be caught lying about your performance though. 

[Nena Trinity]

#fakenews This is not cheating it is called TURBO! Even Intel, AMD & Nvidia use this! Are they all cheating? True it only activate the turbo in known apps(games, benchmarks & heavy apps) rather than a app that requires extra performance which I personally think is just a design flaw in the software. Then again made in China so I do not expect good software to begin with but that they are CHEATING? THAT IS FAKE NEWS AND XENOPHOBIA TO MAKE CHINA`S ECONOMY WEAKER SO THE USofA & JAPAN CAN INVADE AND TAKE OVER CHINA, THEY ALWAYS WANT TO INVADE CHINA!!!

[mynameisjuan]

12 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

yet some people who are “all about the specs” don’t buy iPhones for some reason

Because they would be idiots to buy into benchmarks. Anyone who buys a phone on benchmarks alone is. 

 

Benchmarks dont correlate to real world performance. There are speed comparisons on real world performance on smoothness and navigating the OS and there are android phones that bench a hell of a lot less and are snappier and more responsive. Only thing they fall behind in is render or video work, which if you render videos on a phone I cant take you seriously.