The New Quadrant benchmark

[Drillbit]

Considering the Note has double the scores of the Galaxy Nexus filling the same resolution, the scores are very impressive. Note that its also higher than the Galaxy S2 which has lower resolution. My older Tegra2 tablets struggle to reach 2000.

Blew past 4200 with my Transformer Prime.

[weegie]

Trying it again a few times today after a restart it scores between 4100-4200 mostly, it seems the memory and I/O is where it's vastly better than most others, I'd be interested to know if they used better quality ram and nand in the Note to try and offset the high resolution because you would think this would swallow the slightly higher clockspeed advantage over the SII, the SII in my opinion is probably a bit faster/smoother than the Note but unless someone was looking hard, would probably never notice any difference between them, certainly a big difference in how much is displayed on the screen though.

I'd never even heard of the Prime, but then I don't really follow tablets at all, do you have the Eee station that goes with it? do you use this in preference over a notebook or do you use notebooks and a desktop as well?

[headcronie]

My Fire got a total score of 1851. Not bad for a $200 tablet.

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[Drillbit]

Trying it again a few times today after a restart it scores between 4100-4200 mostly, it seems the memory and I/O is where it's vastly better than most others, I'd be interested to know if they used better quality ram and nand in the Note to try and offset the high resolution because you would think this would swallow the slightly higher clockspeed advantage over the SII, the SII in my opinion is probably a bit faster/smoother than the Note but unless someone was looking hard, would probably never notice any difference between them, certainly a big difference in how much is displayed on the screen though.

I would say you are on track that the Note might be using better quality or faster NAND, or Samsung also tweaked the OS.

In any case, I saw someone with a tweaked ROM on his Galaxy Nexus, and he is scoring over 4000 in Quadrant, which is double the score of the stock phone. This suggests to me Quadrant can be gamed with OS tweaks.

I'd never even heard of the Prime, but then I don't really follow tablets at all, do you have the Eee station that goes with it? do you use this in preference over a notebook or do you use notebooks and a desktop as well?

Its not likely I would be using the Prime with a keyboard so I choose to save money and not buy the dock at all. I already have a netbook (Acer InspireOne 722) and I don't view the Prime as a replacement for it.

The Prime is the second generation Asus Transformer which has the quad core Tegra3 SoC. It is intended to be used with ICS, although its shipped with Honeycomb but gets an online OTA minutes after you activate. Maybe the next batch of these tablets will ship with ICS outright. It probably won't be the last Asus to use the Tegra3 since I would expect cheaper variants, without the expensive metal casing, to eventually follow this model. Physically, its a beautiful looking device with the metal and build quality, but its not cheap.

I can tell you from my experience everything just flies in the screen, and everything tracks underneath exactly under the fingertips. It has none of the framerate drops I see with my older Tegra2 tablets. Asus scored a coup with this device, they managed to Samsung'ed even Samsung. Nothing is more evident than running a live wall paper. Complicated live wallpapers can cause the Tegra2 tablets to drop framerates faster on the homescreen and create visibly choppier movement. The Prime handles live wallpapers without even breaking a sweat and no visible change in the homescreen framerate. There is a night and day difference between the Tegra3 and Tegra2 tablets.

I also have a desktop, although you might say, its a nettop, A nettop is a desktop that is a like a micro-PC powered by netbook internals, e.g. Intel Atom. The Aspire Revo I use is powered by a single core Atom processor connected to a nVidia Ion chipset.

Does a tablet exactly replace a netbook or a nettop? Even with a keyboard, I would say no. Its just crappy to be typing a keyboard, then moving it out from the keyboard to touch the screen. My brother has an iPad 2 with a keyboard dock too, and he ends up never using it. Ironically the dock came from a friend who ended up not using it either with his iPad.

A keyboard and a mouse, trackball or trackpad, puts your hands on the same elevation level. An angled touchscreen with a keyboard puts hands on different elevation levels. Once you have different elevation levels it results in more effort in movement and we are all so lazy creatures.

A mouse and a mouse pointer, it seems, is more efficient and quicker in navigating larger screens versus touch.

Also, tablets still have a way to go with matching the processing power and memory of a netbook. My Acer InspireOne 722 is cheaper than top tablets, iOS or Android, but it will double the results of Chrome in Browsermark with over 220,000 over tablets (Chrome in Transformer Prime gets 120,000, and the iPad gets about 100,000 with Safari). Said netbook comes with a 4Gb of RAM, 500Gb or hard disk, and an 80 core Radeon GPU that has its own dedicated graphics memory, something that mobile GPUs don't.

Finally, desktop webpages and apps still have functionality than mobile apps don't. Its quite evident with Facebook, eBay, Amazon and so on. Even with Google+. Post PC era my foot. (But I do love my new Prime).

[scjjtt]

Here are my results - I don't know if I should be concerned or glad?

Total: 1169
CPU: 1421
Mem: 1846
I/O: 543
2D: 290
3D: 1745

[Hook]

Here are my results - I don't know if I should be concerned or glad?

Total: 1169
CPU: 1421
Mem: 1846
I/O: 543
2D: 290
3D: 1745

Does it perform well for wat you want? Nuff Said. Stats are fun but, ultimately, not very important. My Samsung Galaxy Player with pathetic numbers is the best PDA I have ever had.

[RickAgresta]

1st run:
total -- 1540
cpu --1422
mem -- 1917
io -- 2717
2D -- 500
3D -- 1143
2nd run (after re-boot):
total -- 1695
cpu -- 1435
mem -- 1941
io -- 3183
2D -- 517
3D -- 1401
Droid X, rooted, standard clock speed

as Hook pointed out, numbers are nice, but hardly tell the whole story, imho

[scjjtt]

Does it perform well for wat you want? Nuff Said. Stats are fun but, ultimately, not very important. My Samsung Galaxy Player with pathetic numbers is the best PDA I have ever had.

There are times that I do have to wait on it as I use it. I'm more interested in the phone to perform at it's best than to have a much of stuff install on it that I may hardly ever use. I'm not interesting in rooting - especially now that I have discovered a program that allows it to be a hotspot to connect to my Touchpad without having to root the phone (Foxfi).

Is the low "io" number to be a concern? What is "io"?

[Hook]

There are times that I do have to wait on it as I use it. I'm more interested in the phone to perform at it's best than to have a much of stuff install on it that I may hardly ever use. I'm not interesting in rooting - especially now that I have discovered a program that allows it to be a hotspot to connect to my Touchpad without having to root the phone (Foxfi).

Is the low "io" number to be a concern? What is "io"?

Yes, that probably is the source of any waits you have. I assume that refers to input/output instructions to the CPU. However, I'm not an expert on this.

[jigwashere]

I find a lot of the issues with waiting have to do with bad apps or issues with my connection to the internet, rather than the phone performance. Case in point -- XDAnroid on my TP2 works great as long as I don't try to use it as a phone or hotspot -- both app-related issues.