RedMagic Smartphones Are Cheating on Benchmarks |
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The RedMagic 11 Pro and RedMagic 11 Pro Plus gaming flagships have suddenly disappeared from the rankings of the popular 3DMark benchmark. As it turns out, the devices were removed following suspicions of result manipulation?the manufacturer did not follow the testing rules. A clear difference in results between open and hidden test runs The reason was the results of independent tests. It turned out that the smartphones behave differently in the standard version of the benchmark and in the ?disguised? version. In the standard test, the devices either couldn't handle the stress load or overheated significantly, whereas in the hidden version, the test ran stably?but with noticeably lower performance. Despite active cooling with a fan and a liquid cooling system, the smartphone can heat up to 55 ?C during a standard test run. But if the device doesn't recognize that a benchmark is running, it delivers more modest results and heats up to only 40 ?C. Consequently, as soon as the device detects the benchmark, a special overclocking mode kicks in to squeeze the maximum power out of the chip during the test for the sake of impressive numbers. The problem is that outside of the benchmark, including in games, the smartphone operates at lower frequencies to avoid overheating. Thus, the test results do not reflect real-world performance during normal use. |
