--- title: GameBench | Mobile performance testing (14) description: (14) --- [![GameBench](https://blog.gamebench.net/hs-fs/hubfs/GameBench%C2%AE-Logo_HRZ-RGB.png?width=230&name=GameBench%C2%AE-Logo_HRZ-RGB.png "GameBench")](https://www.gamebench.net/) - [Home](https://www.gamebench.net/#header) - [Solutions](https://www.gamebench.net/solutions/gamebench-tools) - [Blog](https://blog.gamebench.net) - [Pricing](https://www.gamebench.net/tools/pricing) - [Support](https://docs.gamebench.net) ## [You\`ve heard of benchmark cheating, but what about benchmark avoidance?](https://blog.gamebench.net/youve-heard-of-benchmark-cheating-but-what-about-benchmark-avoidance) [![You`ve heard of benchmark cheating, but what about benchmark avoidance?](https://blog.gamebench.net/hubfs/GameBench-Feb2017/Images/htc_systrace%20copy.jpg "You`ve heard of benchmark cheating, but what about benchmark avoidance?")](https://blog.gamebench.net/youve-heard-of-benchmark-cheating-but-what-about-benchmark-avoidance) It's more than a year since bloggers at Anandtech produced a [definitive list of Android benchmark cheaters](http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks) -- manufacturers who tweaked their devices to produce artificially high scores in GFX Bench,  AnTuTu and other synthetic mobile benchmarks. (Recap: it was just a couple of little-known vendors like Samsung and HTC.) The issue of cheating has [lessened](http://www.extremetech.com/computing/177841-samsungs-latest-android-update-no-longer-cheats-on-benchmarks) since then, but gamers are still getting gamed -- this time through a tactic that can best be described as "benchmark avoidance." Fortunately, GameBench has a solution to this issue, just as it did to the first cheating scandal, but first let's look at how the avoidance tactic works. Benchmark avoidance is when hardware companies deliberately disable parts of the Android operating system in order to make a mobile device more inscrutable to the most revealing types of benchmarks -- particularly to real-world benchmarks like GameBench. [Read More](https://blog.gamebench.net/youve-heard-of-benchmark-cheating-but-what-about-benchmark-avoidance) - GameBench Staff - 04. December 2014 - [Benchmarking](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/benchmarking), [systrace](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/systrace), [htc](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/htc), [Cheating](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/cheating), [mediatek](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/mediatek), [avoidance](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/avoidance) - 0 Comments ## [The market’s first ‘usability’ benchmark](https://blog.gamebench.net/markets-first-usability-benchmark) When you’re on a long flight, have you stopped yourself from playing a mobile game in order to conserve your battery? Have you experienced too many stutters when you play a visually intensive title? Do you think it’d be helpful if you could choose a phone to suit your specific needs, based on public data about how well each model handles the best games and apps? Smartphone and tablet reviewers try to distill their sense of how well a phone performs, but no matter how good their intentions, their conclusions are inevitably subjective and anecdotal. That’s why a market has developed around benchmarking apps like GFX, CPUBench, AnTuTu etc. [Read More](https://blog.gamebench.net/markets-first-usability-benchmark) - Jake - 25. June 2014 - [Benchmarking](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/benchmarking), [Mobile Testing](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/mobile-testing), [QA](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/qa), [Mobile Gaming](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/mobile-gaming), [Hardware](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/hardware), [Software](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/software), [Usability](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/usability) - 0 Comments ## [How to make an ‘uncheatable’ benchmark](https://blog.gamebench.net/how-to-make-an-uncheatable-benchmark) Is there such thing as an ‘uncheatable’ benchmark? Cheating [isn’t new](http://www.androidcentral.com/cheating-android-benchmarks-isnt-new) in benchmarking, as seen with [SPEC (for PCs)](https://www.gamebench.net/) or [Dhyrstone (for embedded processors)](https://blog.gamebench.net/hubfs/GameBench-Feb2017/Files/dhrystone_wp.pdf) from a decade ago. More recently, benchmark wars have resurfaced, given the news around how certain smartphone manufacturers like Samsung and HTC have been [rigging the results](http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/) on particular top end models. It appears that they detect when a benchmark that is running (such as GFX, Basemark, or AnTuTu), and then increase the chipset frequency and temperature constraints to give higher results. [Read More](https://blog.gamebench.net/how-to-make-an-uncheatable-benchmark) - Jake - 09. December 2013 - [Cheating](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/cheating), [Mobile Gaming](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/mobile-gaming), [Hardware](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/hardware), [Software](https://blog.gamebench.net/topic/software) - 0 Comments [« first](https://blog.gamebench.net) [‹ previous](https://blog.gamebench.net/page/13) [1](https://blog.gamebench.net/page/1) [...](https://blog.gamebench.net/page/9) [10](https://blog.gamebench.net/page/10) [11](https://blog.gamebench.net/page/11) [12](https://blog.gamebench.net/page/12) [13](https://blog.gamebench.net/page/13) [14](https://blog.gamebench.net/page/14) Please enable JavaScript to view the [comments powered by Disqus.](https://disqus.com/?ref_noscript) [GameBench.](https://www.gamebench.net/) GameBench is a suite of tools that allows anybody to quickly and easily test the performance of an app, game, or device. #### Follow - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/GameBench-357043467745481/) - [Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/gamebench) - WeChat #### Site map - [Home](https://www.gamebench.net/) - [GameBench Team](https://www.gamebench.net/content/who-we-are) - [Blog](https://blog.gamebench.net/) - [Press & News](https://www.gamebench.net/information/press-and-news) [GameBench](https://www.gamebench.net/#) © All Right Reserved [Privacy & Security](https://www.gamebench.net/legal/privacy-security) | [Terms of Service](https://www.gamebench.net/legal/terms-of-service) | [Privacy Policy](https://www.gamebench.net/legal/privacy-policy) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "Organization", "address" : { "@type" : "PostalAddress", "addressCountry" : "United Kingdom", "addressLocality" : "Bristol and Bath Science Park", "addressRegion" : "Bristol", "postalCode" : "BS16 7FR", "streetAddress" : "Unit 001 " }, "alternateName" : "GameBench ", "areaServed" : { "@type" : "GeoCircle", "geoMidpoint" : { "@type" : "GeoCoordinates", "latitude" : "51.499989", "longitude" : "-2.477580" }, "geoRadius" : "" }, "description" : "GameBench provides mobile performance testing tools for Android & iOS devices and mobile game studios and develkopers, enabling QA to quickly and easily spot performance issues.", "email" : "info@gamebench.net", "image" : "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2891910/GameBench%C2%AE-Logo_HRZ-RGB.png", "logo" : "https://www.gamebench.net/assets/images/2017gblogo_hrz_color.png", "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://blog.gamebench.net", "@type" : "WebPage", "description" : "(14)" }, "name" : "GameBench", "sameAs" : [ "https://www.facebook.com/gamebench/", "https://twitter.com/gamebench/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gamebench/" ], "telephone" : "", "url" : "https://www.gamebench.net" } ```