Huawei has been in the news lately with its newest benchmarking scandal at a stretch of some days. The company drew the attention of many smartphone lovers as soon as the researchers' team of AnandTech caught the fabricated index of its newest handset Honor Play.
Huawei branded Honor reportedly surfaced a fake GPU acceleration over well-known GFX benchmarking. After the scandal was brought to daylight by the majority of tech specialists, Huawei came forward with its own set of clarifications as well.
According to Android Authority, Huawei specified its Honor Play as the best in class gaming smartphone with top ratings in terms of its GPU performance in GFXBenchmarking. GFXBenchmarking has long been regarded as a reliable source to tech enthusiasts and smartphone lovers. Many tech analysts even directly depend upon the scores provided on the benchmarking platform when analyzing any device's capability.
But while a group of tech researching fellows of AnandTech took on Honor Play by themselves independently, they found that Huawei's next-gen gaming masterpiece actually doesn't reach up to the GPU accuracy mark when in operation. It was caught that Huawei is pushing up the GPU speed of Honor Play way ahead than the sustainable limit of smartphone's original performance and battery life.
Technically, Honor Play's GPU performance rate was surfaced on GFXBenchmarking at a much higher state than the similar handsets of Huawei's potential rivals like Xiaomi and OnePlus. AnandTech spotted that Honor Play's alleged GPU speed surpassed the limit ignoring thermal design power (TPD) index, which is recommended for smartphones to allow the chip to run at its best capacity. As a result, it will possibly bring unsustainable performance at a much higher power consumption, as per AnandTech's revelation.
Huawei also came up with its own declaration in turn to justify itself. The company stated: "Huawei always prioritizes the user experience rather than pursuing high benchmark scores - especially since there isn't a direct connection between smartphone benchmarks and user experiences. Huawei smartphones use advanced technologies such as AI to optimize the performance of hardware, including the CPU, GPU, and NPU."
It further added: "In normal benchmarking scenarios, once Huawei's software recognizes a benchmarking application, it intelligently adapts to "Performance Mode" and delivers optimum performance. Huawei is planning to provide users with access to "Performance Mode" so they can use the maximum power of their device when they need to."
The benchmarking scandal reminds a number of situations that took place in earlier years as well. A similar instance of such a troublesome issue came to spotlight back in 2017, with OnePlus and Meizu as the main role players. However, reality over benchmarking always takes a more or less turns and modifications, as per the majority of tech enthusiasts.
