MediaTek Defends ‘Industry Benchmarking Standards,’ Drags ‘Key Competitor’ Into the Controversy

MediaTek on Wednesday said that the company follows “industry benchmarking standards” and that it is convinced that its chipset potential are “accurately” represented on benchmark tests. The company was responding to a story done by AnandTech who accused MediaTek of “cheating” on benchmarks. According to the publication, MediaTek was caught running a “Sports Mode” that boosted memory controllers among others to increase performance in the benchmark tests. AnandTech initially ran the benchmark tests on the Dimensity 1000L-powered Oppo Reno 3 and found it to be outperformed by an Helio P95-powered Oppo Reno 3 Pro. The Helio P95’s Cortex A-75 CPU are two generations older than Dimensity 1000L’s A-77 CPU cores. Further, the P95 had two cores as compared to the new generation chip’s four cores triggering an in-depth investigation by AnandTech.

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Anonymised PCMark Reveals An 30% Performance Drop

The publication put the Reno 3 Pro for further scrutiny through an anonymised version of PCMark where it was revealed that the device returned a 30% lower score compared to a normal version. Additionally, the device was also said to have returned lower scores up to 75% on certain channels such as the writing workload.

AnandTech put several other MediaTek devices on audit including other Oppo devices like Reno Z, F15, F9 Pro along with Vivo S1, Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro and Realme C3. Crucially, the Sony Xperia XA1 released in 2017 was also said to feature the “Sports Mode” indicating that MediaTek has been following “industry benchmarking standards” for a few years now.