If true, this could provide some benefit to the consumer - although FrAndroid has tested some high-intensity games (such as Pokémon Go and Asphalt 8) and found no evidence of boost mode being triggered. The manufacturer also insists that its boost mode has a genuine function, since it can be triggered by computationally intenstive games and apps in addition to just benchmarks. In its defence, OnePlus says it will stop doing this in future builds of its OxygenOS.
OnePlus has responded quickly to the allegations, admitting that its latest phone - the OnePlus 3T - has been programmed to recognise the launch of benchmarking apps like AnTuTu and GeekBench and then boost its processor clock speeds. However, according to the popular sites XDA and FrAndroid, benchmark cheating has now resurfaced - this time among the Chinese smartphone manufacturers OnePlus and Meizu, who are accused of trying to mislead potential customers through artificially inflated performance scores. We here at GameBench had certainly hoped so - after all, we originally built GameBench in order to help the mobile industry progress beyond this sort of behaviour, by allowing bloggers and enthusiasts to test real games and apps in order to provide a meaningful, uncheatable measurement of performance. So much time has passed since the last big benchmark cheating scandal in 2013 that you’d be forgiven for thinking that the issue had gone away.
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