Items tagged with helio p95

by Brandon Hill - Wed, Apr 15, 2020

UL Delists Over 50 Phones Using MediaTek Chips Following PCMark Cheating Scandal

A week ago, we brought you news of a cheating scandal involving MediaTek and its popular [with low-end smartphones] Helio P95 SoC. The company was found to be gaming the system in UL's PCMark benchmark utility, posting overall scores that were inflated by as much as 30 percent due to a hidden “Sports Mode”. The... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Wed, Apr 08, 2020

MediaTek Allegedly Caught Cheating Its Way Through Mobile Device Benchmarks

Cheating in synthetic benchmarks is an old practice; one that has been uncovered and litigated many times over through the years. Most recently, Huawei was caught gaming the system with a number of its smartphones (3DMark scores were inflated by as much as 47 percent), after which it apologized and ended the practice... Read more...