Geekbench announced that it would delist the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro from its rankings following the initial report.
AnandTech performed an exhaustive investigation into the throttling behavior on the OnePlus 9 and found that OxygenOS – OnePlus’s flavor of Android 11 – includes a special blacklist of apps that are forbidden from using its fastest „Prime“ core or can only use it with a much lower clock speed. As a result, performance takes a noticeable nosedive on the OnePlus 9 Pro compared to other flagship Android devices using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. The publication was first alerted to the throttled performance after experiencing horrendous performance with the Google Chrome browser and the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark. However, performance was right in line with where it should be when switching to the less popular Vivaldi browser (which could leverage the Cortex X1 prime core on the Snapdragon 888). A deeper dive into the code for OxygenOS revealed the full extent of the deception.
