honor Play cheating in benchmarks — uses double the power to deliver unrealistically high benchmark scores
The honor Play has been caught cheating in benchmarks with unrealistically high power delivery to the Kirin 970 to give it higher benchmark scores.
honor Play cheating in benchmarks
honor has just been caught red-handed by AnandTech for boosting the scores in detected benchmarks. The honor Play actually delivers nearly double the performance in benchmarks than realistically possible, by allowing the chipset to draw double the normal power limit.
The honor Play actually detects benchmarks, and allows the chipset to draw nearly double the power and deliver more performance. AnandTech had to use special apps which won’t be detected by the device to show the difference.
Naturally, when the chipset is capable of drawing more power battery life would also be affected. That is probably why we noticed the honor Play faring quite badly in the battery benchmark when we reviewed it?
While honor is far from the first to be spotted cheating by boosting performance when a benchmark is detected, the best part is how HUAWEI responded to it. AnandTech met with HUAWEI’s President of Software, and he was quoted saying:
others do the same testing, get high scores, and Huawei cannot stay silent
Take of that what you will.
Source: AnandTech
Pokdepinion: It is quite common practice for brands to cheat in benchmarks. Samsung has done it before, OnePlus too, and so has HTC. It’s never justifiable to do it.
