Recently, Geekbench co-founder John Pool claimed that Xiaomi slows down the performance of branded smartphones when running certain programs. In its official commentary, the company responded to the claim and explained how its smartphones perform in these scenarios.

Xiaomi applies a certain strategy to manage the temperature of the device. All this is aimed at ensuring optimal performance, especially in the case of resource-intensive programs that are often used for a long time.

On many of our devices, we offer three types of performance modes – this allows users to fine-tune the balance between performance and energy efficiency at the hardware level. All optimization scenarios related to application performance take into account many important factors such as power consumption, device performance and overheating,” Xiaomi said in a press release.

Thus, the company confirmed that it uses certain power consumption settings for its gadgets in order to increase their autonomy and prevent heating.

At the same time, according to network sources, only some of the brand’s flagship smartphones support this three-level performance mode, the list of which is not specified.

Whether Xiaomi intends to release a patch to disable the forced power saving mode, as Samsung recently did, is still unknown. Previously, a Geekbench representative stated that the performance of Xiaomi Mi 11 when running the benchmark, renamed Fortnite or Genshin Impact, decreased by 30 and 15 percent under single and multi-threaded loads, respectively.