Huawei caught cheating in a benchmark test
Huawei has been caught artificially boosting the performance of some of their mobile phones while running 3DMark, the popular benchmarking app. UL, the company behind the benchmarking application, has delisted P20, P20 Pro, Nova 3 and Honor Play after they were found to be artificially boosting their performance while running the benchmark.
The behavior was first noticed by AndTech and it was later confirmed by UL in a press release that Huawei was indeed cheating on the benchmark and its phones were detecting the running benchmark application to temporarily boost their performance. As a punishment, 3DMark has removed these phones’ rankings from its leaderboard and updated their listings on its website with a note that the phone’s “manufacturer has not complied with UL benchmark rules.”
Huawei has admitted to using AI to increase their performance based on certain intensive tasks which might explain how the benchmarking app experienced artificially increased performance. However, testing done by UL shows that a private version of 3DMark application experienced no such spikes in performance, throwing shade over Huawei’s claims of using an AI that is smart enough to recognize hardware usage to tweak performance automatically.
Huawei is not the first phone manufacturer to artificially enhance benchmark scores. Brands like Samsung have previously been found meddling with phone’s performance during the benchmarking process, which raises further questions about the authenticity and importance of benchmarking tools while judging a phone’s performance.
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