Is it true that performance mode makes Xiaomi smartphone work faster?

Every smartphone has a power saving mode, and you probably know about it.It disables automatic synchronization and vibration feedback, limits the activity of system applications, and also reduces processor speed to save battery power.However, Xiaomi devices have performance mode – the exact opposite of energy saving, forcing you to squeeze all the juice out of the processor.This is how the function description sounds on paper.But is she really capable? speed up Xiaomi smartphoneor all the manufacturer’s promises are not worth a penny?

How to enable high performance

performance mode available on all smartphones with MIUI 12.5 and above, namely: Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO.It is next to power saving in the “Battery” settings section, where it can be activated.Enabled by default on smartphone balanced mode:

1. Open device settings.
2. Go to the “Battery” section.
3. Select “Performance”.
4. Click OK.

After enabling this feature, the battery icon will turn blue.

When activated high performance MIUI the smartphone warns that in this mode, power consumption increases, and there is also a risk of overheating of the device.But I would draw your attention to another point.Estimated run time, which is displayed in the Battery section, barely decreases after high performance is enabled.On smartphone Xiaomi 12T Pro with a fully charged MIUI battery predicts the following:

• balanced mode – 26 hours 18 minutes;
• productivity – 25 h 0 min (-5%);
• energy savings – 32 hours 22 minutes 1942 (+ 23%);
• ultra-energy saving – 85 h 0 min (+223%).

Of course, all these are shell forecasts, which are calculated depending on the smartphone usage scenarios.But the fact that in Xiaomi performance mode does not predict a serious subsidence of autonomy, in contrast to its improvement when energy saving is activated, immediately raised my doubts about the effectiveness of this method MIUI acceleration.Let’s see how things work in practice.

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Performance mode on a Xiaomi smartphone

When interacting with a smartphone in high performance mode I didn’t notice any changes.Even 120 Hz when scrolling YouTube, this option is not capable of giving.As usual, Xiaomi has to settle for 60 Hz.Maybe I don’t understand something?To answer the question, we use Geekbench 6 appwhich makes it possible to evaluate phone processor power.Let’s run the test in a balanced mode and with high performance, after allowing the device to cool down after the first run.

The performance difference is almost imperceptible.

Based on Geekbench 6 performance data Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor, installed in the Xiaomi 12T Pro smartphone, increased by 0.3% in the single-core test, and by as much as 1.1% in the multi-core test.All this is more like an error, which confirms a similar Redmi Note 9 Pro phone test on the Snapdragon 720G chip.

Redmi Note 9 Pro is also not faster

In this case MIUI performance mode showed an increase of 0.97% in a single-threaded test and a drop of 0.17% in a multi-threaded test.I think you already understood that this function is not speeds up smartphone, and if it does, then just a little.However, on the devices of the Chinese manufacturer, there is another option that really makes Xiaomi work faster.

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Speed ​​up games on Xiaomi phone

And now there is a difference

In fact, I just added Geekbench 6 to the game section of the standard GameSpace utility and activated the acceleration.Apparently, in this mode, the system allows you to use the super-powerful Cortex-X2 core Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processoroperating at up to 3.2 GHz, while the remaining 3 Cortex-A710 and 4xCortex-A510 cores have a maximum frequency of 2.75 GHz and 2 GHz, respectively.

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That being said, adding Geekbench 6 to game section on smartphone Redmi Note 9 Pro does not provide such a significant increase: only 2.6% in a single-threaded test and the same in a multi-threaded test.However, this is still a more noticeable difference than using performance mode MIUI.And I attribute the modest increase to the architecture of the cores of the Snapdragon 720G processor, which does not imply the presence of one super-powerful component.

On Redmi Note 9 Pro, the performance gain was significantly less

All games for xiaomi automatically get into GameSpace, which really allows a little (and sometimes a lot) speed up smartphone.If you wish, you can add any other application (for example, a video editor) to the game section so that it starts working faster:

1. Launch the Game Booster application, which is located by default in the Tools folder on your desktop.If it is not there, open the section of the same name in the “Security” program or in the phone settings.
2. Click on the “+” in the upper right corner.


You can choose any application installed on your smartphone

3. In the list on the right, find the desired application and activate the switch.


Move the slider to the right

I note that this is not the only way to speed up a Xiaomi phone.You will find more options in a separate article, where, in addition to the performance mode and GameSpace, we considered 3 more ways to squeeze all the juice out of devices on MIUI shell.