Futuremark is a company that creates benchmarks that enable people to reliably measure, understand and manage computer hardware performance. People rely on Futuremark benchmarks to produce accurate and unbiased results. In order to retain their reputation, Futuremark announced that they've delisted new Android devices with suspicious scores.
A total of six devices have been removed from Futuremark's device database for rigging benchmark tests. The makers behind the 3DMark benchmark tool have delisted four Samsung devices and two HTC mobile devices after having found that they were rigging benchmark scores.
It was discovered that these devices had a line of code that automatically clocked the CPU and GPU to maximum whenever a known benchmark utility was initialized. This allowed manufacturers to post a 20 percent higher benchmark score than what a device would actually get in real-world usage.
Futuremark President Oliver Baltuch said in a statement. "In simple terms, a device must run our benchmarks without modification as if they were any other application."
Futuremark caught dirty trickster Samsung rigging scores again. Ars Technica first reported on this emerging behaviour last month.