OnePlus confirms that he has strangled the performance of 300 popular applications
OnePlus has always used flagship specifications in its devices, even when its phones subcontract the competition price. The days of “flagship killers” have been left for a long time, but the company still chooses high-end processors every year. In theory, it should make the oneplus 9 and 9 pro the fastest phones you can buy today – indeed, our opinions are fundamentally saying the same – but it turns out that many applications are retained from the maximum performance.
A new report by Anandtech deeply plunges into the determination of the determination of whether the landmarks of OnePlus 9 Pro Pro correspond to the use of the real world and, unfortunately, the answer seems to be a difficult number. While Oxygenos allows comparative analysis applications to achieve complete performance using Snapdragon 888, OnePlus has included a black list of popular applications from the gaming store, all prevented from taking full advantage of the power of the power of the power of the power. phone. The speculating report is an attempt to improve the life of the battery – a failure, if our review is something to follow.
With regard to applications affected by the manipulation of OnePlus, unfortunately, this seems to be wide. Anandtech tested dozens of the most popular apps in the games room, ranging from social networks to Microsoft’s desktop, as well as several popular third-party browsers, and almost everything was limited. Even pre-installed system applications were restricted. It did not take long for a template to appear: if you acknowledge the name of an application, it is probably to be strangled by OnePlus.
There are of course exceptions. Vivaldi was the only browser that was not limited artificially and games like Genhin Impact could be played at full performance. The analysis also discovered certain outliers. Uber and Uber eats the two ran at reduced speeds, but Lyft and Grubhub were used as usual.
As we could affirm the main rabat to take away here is not to trust comparative analysis applications – a lesson we have learned on many occasions – this specific issue feels better the controversy of Apple’s strangulation A few years ago, which ended with rare excuses of the company. We will have to wait to see if oneplus removes or reduces these application restrictions in response to this report because it is undoubtedly not benefiting from the full power of the Snapdragon 888. Until then, you should check the whole survey on Anandtech for A truly nervous dive into the comparative analysis, the core code and the enclosure of the application.
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Deletion of Geekbench
Shortly after Anandtech released its report regarding OnePlus throttling apps on its phones, Geekbench – one of the most popular ways to run benchmark tests on Android – took action. According to its Twitter account, the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro have been removed from the service’s benchmark table.
It’s disappointing to see OnePlus handsets making performance decisions based on application identifiers rather than application behavior. We view this as a form of benchmark manipulation. We’ve delisted the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro from our Android Benchmark chart. https://t.co/G40wmWeg7o
— Geekbench (@geekbench) July 6, 2021
Geekbench also intends to determine if other OnePlus devices are guilty of the same manipulation, promising to remove all guilty devices from its list as well.
OnePlus responds
A day after Anandtech’s original report, a representative from OnePlus made a statement to XDA’s Mishaal Rahman, which you can read in full below.
“Our top priority is always delivering a great user experience with our products, based in part on acting quickly on important user feedback. Following the launch of the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro in March, some users told us about some areas where we could improve the devices’ battery life and heat management. As a result of this feedback, our R&D team has been working over the past few months to optimize the devices’ performance when using 300 of the most popular apps, including Chrome, by matching the app’s processor requirements with the most appropriate power. This has helped to provide a smooth experience while reducing power consumption. While this may impact the devices’ performance in some benchmarking apps, our focus as always is to do what we can to improve the performance of the device for our users.”
Looking at the patch notes for OxygenOS 11.2.6.6 – the version of the software tested by Anandtech – OnePlus noted that it had “optimized power consumption”, although to put it mildly for the actual change. . However, as Mishaal noted in a subsequent tweet, the limitation may have been implemented prior to launch, noting a low Jetstream score in the March PhoneArena review.
Interestingly, the company claims that its “optimizations” affect the device when running benchmarking applications, but this is the opposite of what yesterday’s report found regarding Geekbench performance. It remains to be seen whether a future update will override this limitation or allow users to customize the phone’s power options.
