Oppo's Find X & F7 Are Accused Of Cheating Benchmark Scores

The Find X - Oppo's flagship smartphone - was designed with a unique slide-out camera panel and potential hardware, and soon became a center point in the smartphone world. Unfortunately, in the benchmark test in April, both of the Oppo Find X and F7 were found guilty: They were tweaked to get higher benchmark scores on the 3DMark app.

According to UL Benchmarks, these two smartphones were programmed to recognize the publicly available version of 3DMark app and boost the performance during testing. Such the performance optimization is unacceptable for smartphone manufacturers.

UL Benchmarks revealed that the Find X’s benchmark scores are up to 41% higher scores than it deserves. As a result, they have been delisted from the 3DMark’s benchmark leaderboard (Find X was ranked #4).

Oppo acknowledged that the Find X and F7 were designed with these issues but the purpose is to improve the users’ experience when running high-performing applications. Besides the public apps, both these smartphones will limit the system performance to 70-80% for unknown applications when users don’t touch on the screen in 5-10 seconds.

Oppo claimed that it was working to improve the performance and system of the Find X and F7 as well as look for the solution to “distinguish between the requirements of undetected apps or the subjective needs of users.”