It was just recently when Samsung was found throttling more than 10,000 apps on the newly unveiled Galaxy S22 smartphones, and as a result, the Galaxy S22 phones were delisted from Geekbench. But, it seems as if app throttling has sort of become a thing as the latest OEM to get indulged in this practice is reportedly Xiaomi.
Geekbench’s co-founder John Poole, via a recent tweet, suggested that Xiaomi is the latest candidate to have throttled app performance. Poole found out about this on a Mi 11 model, which had both the original Geekbench app and a fake one too.
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
Although, we do not have anything concrete to prove this. There’s a possibility that other apps might be throttled too. Moreover, it remains unknown if this is the case for just Mi 11 phones or has been extended to other models (maybe Redmi too) as well. To get a better idea, we need to wait for a word from Xiaomi, and we will update you with the details.
