Antutu bans Realme GT after it found evidence of benchmark cheating. The benchmarking company has decided to remove Realme GT from its listings for three months. The Beijing-based software company claimed that the latest Realme flagship manipulated the results of its performance in the multithreaded workload and JPG decoding of the AnTuTu app.
In a Weibo post, Antutu has mentioned that the Realme GT allegedly cheated on the benchmark test. As a result, it has also removed the phone’s score from the database. The phone’s score was around 750,000, which is considerably higher than the Xiaomi Mi 11’s score of ~708,000. Antutu specifically noted that this figure was “not a manifestation of true strength, but obtained through cheating and other means.”
AnTuTu claimed that the Realme GT delayed threads when running the multithreaded test on its benchmark app, resulting in usage of the fastest CPU cores. And those tactics helped the phone receive higher benchmark scores.
In addition to that, Realme GT modified the reference JPG image used by the benchmarking platform to reduce processing times. And that results in achieving a higher score in JPG decoding.
Antutu said, “The phone is said to have used mosaic color blocks instead of processing the image verbatim genuinely, to reduce its quality and cut down processing efforts.”
The benchmarking company claims that both the delaying threads and modifying the reference image are against giving fair benchmark results. So the Antutu decided to remove the scores of Realme GT from its database and bans that model for three months.
The Realme GT was launched in China earlier this month. It comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC, a top-of-the-line processor. Realme GT is not the first to try to manipulate the benchmark scores. Previously, companies including Huawei and OnePlus have been caught manipulating benchmark scores to attract customers.
Realme responds to the statement
According to Android Authority, Realme wrote an email to AA claiming that it believes the benchmark scores are “all accurate.” And the firm is in communicating with Antutu during the time of writing that email.
The company’s CMO Xu Qi Chase posted a statement on Weibo, stating that their score is the “real data ran under the current version” of Antutu. You can see the Google-translated statement of his below.
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