Oh, but no one has ever had any complaints about the performance of Xiaomi smartphones. If anything could be blamed on them, it was support outages, update glitches, and system bugs that manifest themselves in a variety of scenarios. But it seems that the devices of the Chinese brand suffer from a lack of computing power, it seems, has never happened. However, the practice has shown that many Xiaomi phones lack performance when it comes to the most resource-intensive tasks, for example, games.
Xiaomi smartphones suffer from performance issues, but only in games
The performance of Xiaomi smartphones in games can fall by about a third of the real indicators. This was found out during the application testing, which was conducted by John Poole, the creator of Geekbench. First, he measured the computing power of the Xiaomi Mi 11 with its help.
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Xiaomi smartphones reset performance only in games
And then Poole replaced the benchmark ID with the Fortnite ID to make the smartphone think it was running the game. As a result, the developer recorded a significant drop in performance, which was 30% in the mononuclear test and about 15% in the multi-core test. Approximately similar results were demonstrated by other devices of the brand.
The situation, frankly, is strange. Because Xiaomi smartphones reset performance in games and do not cheat with benchmarks, giving better results than they are, as one might assume. This showed several successive tests conducted with the participation of different applications.
As a result, the initial hypothesis put forward by John Poole, the creator of Geekbench, was confirmed: Xiaomi smartphones work at full capacity in the vast majority of applications. But when they run games, their processors go into power efficiency mode and start to throttle, which is why the actual performance is seriously reduced.
The problem of throttling affects the devices of the highest price segment. These are either flagships or sub-flagships. Therefore, the absurdity of the situation lies in the fact that in games their performance is approximately at the same level as that of medium-sized devices with not the most powerful processors. For example, the Poco F2 Pro even bypasses the Xiaomi Mi 11, despite the weaker chipset.
Is it worth buying Xiaomi phones
Xiaomi protects its smartphones from premature discharge and overheating. But this does not calm us down in any way.
Surprisingly, Xiaomi has confirmed that it is cutting back on the performance of its smartphones in gaming. Here’s how the company commented on this problem:
Xiaomi smartphones use the technology of effective temperature management, which provides the most optimal work with resource-intensive applications. Many of our devices offer three performance modes that allow us to maintain a balance between high speed of operation and energy efficiency. They take into account many different factors affecting energy consumption and heat dissipation, and on their basis, they choose the most suitable power level.
It turns out that the failure in question is not at all such. This is the intentional operation of built-in mechanisms that do not allow smartphones to accelerate properly to prevent heating and increased battery consumption. This approach makes practical sense: the device begins to work longer from charging and does not overheat, thereby increasing the life cycle of internal components.
However, in my opinion, there is a serious contradiction in this. What then is the point of buying an expensive device from the flagship segment, if the manufacturer is not able to cope with high computing power and, instead of realizing the potential of the device to the fullest, deliberately cuts it?
The result is a paradox: the purchase of Xiaomi flagships of the current generation loses all meaning. After all, it simply will not give you the desired level of performance, for which you bought it. Therefore, a more logical choice is to purchase devices of past generations that do not suffer from throttling, or models of the past or this year, but not related to the top segment.