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OnePlus 9 series removed from Geekbench (Update: OnePlus gives statement)
August 10, 2025
Updated, June 10, 2025 (01:55 PM ET):OnePlus contactedAndroid Authorityto give a statement on the matter described below. Here is the statement in full:
So far, Geekbench has not reinstated the previously removed OnePlus 9 benchmarks.
Original article, June 23, 2025 (11:16 AM ET):Yesterday,AnandTechposted some information about “weird behavior” it spotted with theOnePlus 9 Pro. According to the team’s research, Oxygen OS apparently limits the performance of some popular Android apps — but none of those apps are benchmark suites.
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Geekbench, one of the more popular benchmarking sites, took these allegations seriously. After conducting its own investigation, Geekbenchrecently announcedthat it has removed all OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts.
Geekbench called Oxygen OS’s behavior a form of “benchmark manipulation.” OnePlus has yet to issue a statement on the matter.
OnePlus 9 benchmarks: What’s going on?
In some of our own testing, we found thatAnandTech’sdata is on the mark. We found that the OnePlus 9 series limits the performance of Google Chrome while older OnePlus phones do not. Check out the screenshots below, and note that the OnePlus 9 Pro doesnotthrottle Microsoft Edge:
OnePlus is no stranger to benchmark manipulation. For the OnePlus 5, eagle-eyed users caught the company pushing the performance capabilities of its devices way up when the operating system detected a benchmark app. This resulted in artificially inflated scores that users would not see during real-world usage.
This situation is different from that, though. Here, OnePlus appears to be limiting the performance of certain apps, likely in an attempt to conserve battery power. This isn’t a problem, but the fact that benchmark apps are notalsoaffected by these optimizations misrepresents what the user will actually experience with the phone. In other words, it’s not blatant cheating but still could give a false impression to a potential buyer if they just looked at OnePlus 9 benchmarks.
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