First place at DxOMark. How much does it cost to become a camera leader?

Over the past few years, various benchmarks have been discredited in the eyes of the user due to the fact that the numbers of AnTuTu, Geekbench and others do not always reflect the real situation in games and resource-intensive applications. Nevertheless, Chinese manufacturers from time to time still boast of high numbers in synthetic tests, substantiating the advantages of new products over their predecessors and competitors.

First place at DxOMark. How much does it cost to become a camera leader?

Measuring the camera capabilities of modern gadgets looks even stranger. But here there is not much variety: the DxOMark ball rules. Despite the extremely dubious ratings and the methodology for compiling them, where there is simply no top score, and the evaluation criteria are very abstract, the efforts of many media DxOMark has become almost more popular than AnTuTu, although it was difficult to imagine this just recently. This is also used by vendors. In particular, Xiaomi has repeatedly recorded the result of DxOMark during the presentation as one of the indicators of the success of its work. Continue reading →