The sustained performance is more or less in line with other S855 phones, at least the ones which have more considerable thermal throttling behaviours. It’s the only Snapdragon 855 device that has a significantly below-the-norm peak performance in this test, clearly much below that of other phones. In the 3DMark Physics test which is more CPU bound, we see the Black Shark 2 perform quite oddly. We never wrote up a review for the Black Shark, but the fact that this behaviour continues is just shameful of Xiaomi – especially given the non-cheating sustained performance scores of the Black Shark 2 which we’ll address now. In the past I’ve encountered the same problem with the MIX 2S and actually also the first generation Black Shark. Unfortunately, this behaviour is not a first from Xiaomi. When using a customised version of the benchmarks, the phone would correctly thermal throttle and peak skin temperatures wouldn’t exceed ~43☌, which is more or less the standard maximum operating temperatures we’ve seen of smartphones over the years. I saw device skin temperatures rise to a peak of 58☌ before I decided to call it quits and stop the app – the phone had gotten so hot I couldn’t comfortably hold it anymore. The problem with this is that seemingly the Black Shark 2 is very ill equipped with actually handling the high power dissipation of the SoC at peak performance. When using the public version of the given benchmarks, the phone detects this and disables thermal throttling. Unfortunately, the Black Shark 2 is one of these cheating devices.
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