While we do not believe this feature article necessarily should alter your perception of the hardware itself, it is right for it to nudge your opinion of the company given it is their second transgression.Īll scores on this article have been obtained on a OnePlus 5 review unit running OxygenOS version 4.5.0 (A5000_22_170603) this is a pre-production unit, and it was originally loaded with pre-production software which received an OTA to the version named above. Finally, we will be compartmentalizing this report from our overall judgment of the device itself, because we are confident the culprit code will be removed from consumer builds following this report and our conversations with OnePlus representatives. We also will not provide a full performance analysis involving all of our included tests as many of our preferred benchmarks are affected by the cheating mechanism. What is worse is that, this time around, the cheating mechanism is blatant and aimed at maximizing performance, unlike last time which did not increase scores by much on average, but did reduce variance and thermal throttling, as we found.īefore we jump into the details, I would like to state that we are disappointed in the company for once more resorting to these practices. As a result, every OnePlus 5 review citing benchmark scores as an accolade of the phone’s success is misleading both writers and readers, and performance analyses based on synthetic benchmarks are invalidated. This is an inexcusable move, because it is ultimately an attempt to mislead not just customers, but taint the work of reviewers and journalists with misleading data that most are not able to vet or verify. Unfortunately, it is almost certain that every single review of the OnePlus 5 that contains a benchmark is using misleading results, as OnePlus provided reviewers a device that cheats on benchmarks. While no customers have a device in their hands (it just launched after all), we have learned about OnePlus’ new benchmark cheating mechanism through our review unit, which we received about ten days ago before the day the embargo breaks and reviewers are allowed to report on the device. Today, we sadly must follow-up on our accusations as the company has once more been inappropriately manipulating benchmark scores in the OnePlus 5. Earlier this year, we published a report that denounced OnePlus (and other companies) for their improper behavior in regards to benchmark manipulation on newer builds of OxygenOS.
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