The fork of Citra, the popular Android emulator of the Nintendo 3DS console, has received a fresh update with one unusual option – the utility has learned to disguise itself as the AnTuTu benchmark so that smartphones give out maximum performance.
In the last few years, a dishonest tactic of overpowering their devices when running performance benchmarks has been popular among Android manufacturers in the past few years – when the firmware detects the opening of an application with a certain package name, it twists resource usage to the maximum (although in the case of regular applications, it sets limits so that the device does not overheated and did not discharge too quickly). A few years ago, because of this, several scandals broke out around eminent manufacturers (including Xiaomi, Huawei and OnePlus) – apparently, the problem still occurs.
The developers of the Citra fork began to distribute two versions of the application on GitHub: a regular one and one disguised as the popular AnTuTu performance benchmark (with the package name com.antutu.ABenchMark). The latter will be useful on smartphones whose firmware still artificially inflates the performance of synthetic tests. Most likely, this is typical mainly for devices from little-known manufacturers.
Source: Trash Box
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