Items tagged with pcmark

by Brandon Hill - Wed, Feb 24, 2021

Intel Claims Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake PCIe 4 Storage Performance Lead Over Ryzen 9

Intel's 11th generation Rocket Lake-S processors are on deck to launch during Q1 2021, and excitement is building. Leading up to the official launch, Intel has been dropping hints about the new processor family's performance compared to AMD's lineup of Ryzen processors. Today, Intel gives us a very early preview of... Read more...

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...