At the turn of the astonishing event, I noticed that OnePlus was slowing down the performance of some of its flagship OnePlus 9 series Android apps. The Chinese giant has reportedly blocked many apps, with the exception of benchmarking apps, from maximizing the potential of the Snapdragon 888 chipset to maintain device battery life.
The report comes from Anand Tech, Citing that the OnePlus 9 Pro benchmark score is unusually low. During the review process, publication Andrei Frumusanu discovered that OnePlus is preventing the list of popular Android apps from using the fastest core of the powerful Snapdragon 888 SoC. However, benchmarking apps such as Geekbench and unknown apps have full access to the power of the processor.
This is the main reason why the OnePlus 9 benchmark score matches other Snapdragon 888-powered devices. However, when Frumusanu tested the benchmarking service using Google Chrome for Android, it found that the app was using only the low-end Cortex-A55 core, not the Snapdragon 888’s Cortex-X1 core. In addition, the app was running at 2.0GHz. Not 2.41GHz, which is the maximum function of the device.
As a result, the OnePlus 9 Pro was able to achieve a painfully low score of just 16.0 with the Speedometer 2 benchmarking tool. For reference, Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro has scored about 202.5 with the same benchmarking tool. Frumusanu was able to get an associated score of 107.0 on the OnePlus 9 Pro using another web browser called Vivaldi.
There is no evidence of an official list of apps that are banned from using the full power of the device, but OnePlus is more than Chrome, YouTube, Instagram, Discord, Zoom, Microsoft Office, reports. Benchmark apps, on the other hand, have full access to the device’s power supply.
In response to this discovery, Geekbench Tweet It’s disappointing to see OnePlus make such a decision. That’s why the company excluded OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro from the Android benchmark charts.
Following development, OnePlus responded to XDA developerMake sure that you are suppressing the performance of a particular app. According to OnePlus, there are two reasons to limit your app. After releasing the OnePlus 9 series, the company added that user feedback suggested that the battery life and thermal performance of its flagship devices needed to be improved.As a result, the company’s R & D team “Over the past few months, when using many of the most popular apps, including Chrome, we’ve been working to optimize device performance by matching the app’s processor requirements with the most appropriate power. It was. “ This allows OnePlus 9 devices to be delivered. “Smooth experience while reducing power consumption” The Chinese giant added.
You can check out AnandTech Here’s a detailed report to learn more about app throttling concerns on OnePlus phones.
