AnTuTu () is a software benchmarking tool commonly used to benchmark
smartphones
A smartphone is a portable computer device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, whic ...
and other devices. It is owned by Chinese company
Cheetah Mobile
Cheetah Mobile Inc () is a Chinese mobile Internet company headquartered in Beijing. , it has more than 634 million monthly active users.
History
Formation
Chen Rui ( :zh:陳睿 current CEO of Bilibili) founded Cheetah Mobile. The company w ...
.
Operations
The company developing the software is based in
Chaoyang District, Beijing
Chaoyang District () is a core district of Beijing. It borders the districts of Shunyi to the northeast, Tongzhou to the east and southeast, Daxing to the south, Fengtai to the southwest, Dongcheng, Xicheng and Haidian to the west, and ...
, and was cofounded by Chinese entrepreneurs Shào Yīng (邵英) and Liáng Bīn (梁斌).They started multi-platform development, releasing a linux version in Mayand a windows version with ray tracing support in August.But note that the linux version currently only supports the x86 architecture.
Circumvention
The AnTuTu benchmark is so common that some hardware manufacturers have cheated on the benchmark, which made the benchmark unreliable.
In response to cheating, AnTuTu created a new benchmark, called AnTuTu X, which made it more difficult for manufacturers to cheat on the benchmark.
Despite the changes introduced by AnTuTu X, cheating continued to be rampant; for instance, in 2021, AnTuTu delisted (and for three months, banned) the
Realme
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GT after evidence was discovered that the phone was found to have used delay tactics in multithreading performance tests, as well as modifying the reference
JPEG
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image for image processing tests.
Versions
; Versions of AnTuTu
References
External links
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Benchmarks (computing)
Chinese brands
Companies based in Beijing
Privately held companies of China