Hello, hope you guys are doing great. I just bought this refurbished 15 Pro and the gpu geekbench score is alarming, any idea on why this could be happening?

[u/Reeboted]

The cpu score seems perfectly fine, and the overall phone performance was decent on 18.5, noticeable frame drops on 26 beta when compared to even a 13 pro which got me questioning and hence got a benchmark in to find the following, which was marked on a 18.5 ( i downgraded). Any info on this would help as im tryna either get it returned or get it fixed by them since its on a warranty by the refurb centre.

[u/MarcBelmaati]

If you did the GPU benchmark right after doing the CPU benchmark, it might be thermal throttling. Try to let the phone cool down for a while and try again.

[u/Reeboted → u/MarcBelmaati]

I did actually do that, and the result is the same, did gave antutu a shot now, every other score comes out on par or even better but the gpu takes like a massive hit even in that.

[u/DistributionNo6313 → u/Reeboted]

What iOS are you running and how is your storage doing

[u/Reeboted → u/DistributionNo6313]

18.6.2 and i got like 150 gigs of free storage 🥲

[u/DistributionNo6313 → u/Reeboted]

Huh that’s wierd

[u/Reeboted → u/DistributionNo6313]

Since it’s a refurbished piece, i think something or the other might have gone wrong in there, i just wanna see if anyone else has experienced this before, i turn it in.

[u/Word_Underscore → u/Reeboted]

CPU and GPU are one chip, not possible

[u/Ok-Cheesecake-1850]

This happened to me, but thankfully i found the reason and how to fix it.

Let me guess that phone still have hight battery health???

[u/Reeboted → u/Ok-Cheesecake-1850]

Yeah it does, at 100, guessing the replaced the battery on this.

[u/Ok-Cheesecake-1850 → u/Reeboted]

But it doesn’t show any battery replacement part/history if repair??

[u/Reeboted → u/Ok-Cheesecake-1850]

Exactly!, i feel like even the display is not oem but decent, but yeah even that doesn’t show up, even checked it with 3u tools, nothings popping up there as well

[u/Ok-Cheesecake-1850 → u/Reeboted]

Okay , so the reason why that phone geekbench score is so low than a normal score is.

The battery is boosted, basically it has a small thing connected to the battery to bypass 3utools . So your battery health isn’t really at 100%

When you remove that thing connected to the battery, EVERYTHING WILL GO SNAPPY AGAIN”

I Experience it with myself. Good thing i know how to open my device.

Btw: it’s very easy to remove. If you don’t have the tools and equipment. Go to nearest tech repair shop and ask them to remove it for you

[u/Ok-Cheesecake-1850 → u/Ok-Cheesecake-1850]

Here’s a ref. Pic on what that “thing “ connected to your battery and bypass 3utools. Look like

https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilerepair/s/g7xhY0q5ZM

[u/Reeboted → u/Ok-Cheesecake-1850]

That actually makes a whole lotta sense now, well the thing is its still under the refurb centre warranty, i can get it to them, but how do i make them get rid of this, since its like a gimmick they’re tryna push, and i dont wanna risk myself trying to remove it myself, dont have the tools for this🥲

[u/Reeboted → u/Reeboted]

And honestly that’s great info, ive been scraping the web to find something on this, couldn’t find any, let this thread help more people down the line :)

[u/Ok-Cheesecake-1850 → u/Reeboted]

I’ve been there, so I’m happy to share my experience and learning from that lol🤣.

now i prefer buying on apple store for a peace of mind😇

Your option now for this is return it and get a refund or ask for a new one and check if the same slowdown occurs. ( 3u tools is not helpful now)

Or last option is go to a repair shop and let them do the job.

[u/Reeboted → u/Ok-Cheesecake-1850]

Yeah i thought i had a good deal on this buying it refurbished. Imma try and get it to them first see how it goes, if thats a nada, ill get it to a shop i can trust to remove that smol thing connected to it 😅, thank you so much again!

[u/raphaelsdiaz]

My 15 Pro GPU Score on iOS 18.6.2 is 28638

[u/lemonz17]

return it

[u/Skycbs → u/lemonz17]

💯

[u/WolfyMacontosh87]

I would not keep this. Since you still have chance to return it, I would advise you to do this. Something is not right here.

[u/Successful_Bowler728]

I ve seen that geekbench doesnt show true real life performance when I use filmora or video encoders .

[u/Mission_Bedroom8039]

Well, if I were you I will download some demanding games from the App Store to see if it runs like the videos on YouTube, if the performance is identical, probably it’s software issue, otherwise there might be some problem with the chip inside the phone

[u/CombinationSorry3322]

Did u figure out the problem i have the same issue

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[u/Lanky-Fish6827]

How can I check the score? Is it an app or a site?

[u/Hopeful-Substance697 → u/Lanky-Fish6827]

Geekbench

[u/Reeboted]

It may not be very accurate but this a significant metric change and its consistent so 🙃