Xiaomi 12 Pro, 12X delisted from Geekbench for benchmark manipulation

The Xiaomi 12 Pro and 12X will soon be removed from Geekbench benchmarks. Based on a Tweet from John Poole, the Chinese smartphone manufacturers manipulated the performance of their smartphones in order to gain better scores.

Looks like Xiaomi is also making performance decisions based on application identifiers.

— John Poole (@jfpoole) March 27, 2022

According to reports from Android Police, the Xiaomi 12 Pro is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, applications like Geekbench or Genshin Impact showed 50% single-core improvements compared to Netflix or Chrome apps.

“It’s disappointing to see another device maker mislead consumers by reducing app performance, but not benchmarking performance. We are investigating which Xiaomi phones have the problem and we will be removing the devices,” Geekbench said in a statement.

In order to prove his point, Poole tweets two smartphone benchmarks showing single-core scores that were 30% lower and multi-core scores that had 15% lower in the Fortnite version.

Here are results from a Xiaomi Mi 11 running Geekbench and Geekbench disguised as Fortnite. Single-core scores are 30% lower, and multi-core scores are 15% lower, in the Fortnite build. https://t.co/wGAnSi73gR

— John Poole (@jfpoole) March 27, 2022

This isn’t the first time a smartphone manufacturer was caught manipulating their performance as even Samsung got delisted by Geekbench for the same cause.