ASUS Transformer Prime vs iPad 2, Riptide GP Demo

ASUS Transformer Prime vs iPad 2, Riptide GP demo by Chris Burns for SlashGear

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[WtfReallyReally]

@shivkalra1 Me too. I hope ASUS upgrades their next tablet from that slow quad core 1.3 GHz processor and 1 GB of DDR2 Ram and 1280 x 800 IPS, gorilla glass treated screen for something awesome like a dual core A5 processor at a whole GHz a serious 512 MB of RAM and a superior 1024 x 768 IPS display. With that awesome screen, they can upgrade the camera from a lousy 8mp 1080p lighted CMOS to a 0.7mp grainy camera. They could then remove usb and hdmi connectivity and lose the sd card expansion.

[zembryoz]

@shivkalra1 Try again. The same resolution doesn't matter and forcing the prime down to a lower res SLOWS IT DOWN. These are LCD displays, anything outside of native resolution and part of the GPU has waste clock cycles on scaling the window to the screen. The A5's PowerVR is not as powerful as Tegra 2 in terms of raw triangle speed and nowhere near the shader processing capability of the Tegra 3. Ye Gods, you're such a fanboy. Go away fanboy, no one cares.

[dragoselle]

LOOOL I CAN'T BELIEVE iPAD STILL RULEZ!!! Even with that quad-core tablet!I must recognise that there is a little difference between the cores of the two tablets but when you play a game or try some functions on ur tablet you don't even sense it.

[Jer0meLey]

@nico53laval Wahahahaha xD, i could only hope for that;)). I wish intel makes tablets and smartphones, is a comp processor as big in size as a phone processor (whole chipset)

[nico53laval]

@Jer0meLey Samsung rocks :p Could you imagine an i7-975 extreme on a smartphone xD?

[Jer0meLey]

@nico53laval a quadcore exynos will still be better so every exynos is the best processor on a tablet or a phone, not laptops:)

[Jer0meLey]

@shivkalra1 lol, stop being a fucking fanboy and get a life isaac newton

[XDKX101]

@nico53laval Yeah thats true although Tegra 3 will still be dominant when it hits smartphones. ICS is the real game changer here; if properly optimized, it will make the S2 or the Note beast. You have no idea how much of a crazy performance gain I got when I updated my Nexus S to ICS lol. Love the forced hardware acceleration; makes the UI butter smooth even with live wallpapers, imagine what it will give a phone like the S2. Of course the S3 will dominate lol hopefully Sammy wont disappoint.

[sourDeez2]

@WtfReallyReally have fun with no apps.

[nico53laval]

@XDKX101 I was talking about the CPUs in the S2 and Note they're the best of their generation and will still be able to hold their own against Tegra 3 when they'll be on final version of ICS, in wait for the S3 which will blow every phone and tablet in terms of performance :D But I will have to wait for the Note 2 since i won't be able to downgrade in size :/

[XDKX101]

@sourDeez2 and you just like @shivkalra1 probably judged the Prime through non-optimized benchmarks. The Prime does beat the iPad by over a "sliver"; everything about the Prime is 2-4x that of the iPad: better multitasking, screen, power management, gaming, semi-laptop, camera, OS, openness, etc. Have you seen the other version of the Prime with the 1080p screen and no lag whatsoever? @shivkalra1 is blabbing about the iPad just like many iFanboys do showing his extreme ignorance. Enjoy your iPad

[XDKX101]

@WtfReallyReally @shivkalra1 is the typical ignorant Apple-loving sheep. Everything that doesnt have the Apple logo on it is inferior to him. Theres no reasoning with people like that lol

[XDKX101]

@nico53laval Dual core gen I believe its the Exynos 5250 of A15 architecture. At least thats the most promising at the moment. There's also the OMAP 5 series that should bring some fight with it as well. Im not sure about the so called "A6" SoC as there arent solid details about it yet.

Samsungs hardware has always been the most promising to me. They achieved that "iPhone-like" smoothness and fluidity with the GS2 on Exynos 4 and their displays are by far some of the best in the world.

[jakal1591]

@WtfReallyReally well put bro..lol

[nico53laval]

@shivkalra1 Just fucking try other benchmarks compatible with ICS and quad-cores --'

[nico53laval]

@shivkalra1 It's faster and handles flash...

[nico53laval]

@shivkalra1 There's only standard version on the iPad because the GPU can't handle the better one designed for the Prime --'

[nico53laval]

@XDKX101 But the Exnos always is the best processor (well not now in the quadcore generation but in single core and dual core generation)

[Yabuddy61]

prime all the way

[oliverregal]

just would like to ask how long your battery last when playing games continuously on your asus tf?

[shikori7]

@androgen80 Tegra 3 gou not that good?

Last I checked the prime could play 1080p 40mb/s video files while the ipad 2 can't.Care to explain how the ipad's gpu is better here? Have even seen the graphical improvement to riptide gp on the prime in this video? If you are basing your opinion on benchmarks note that the programs used to test the tegra 3 are not optimized to use all five cores.

[muskyownz]

For christmas, my dad was going to get me an ipad 2, but I told him to get me an asus transformer (1st gen, not the new one) with android instead. I haven't regret it since. You know the ipad sucks when you chose the 1st gen asus over the ipad 2. Of course Ipad can't compete with asus transformer 2nd gen. You can't even ague anything; numbers speak for themselves.

[zembryoz]

@shivkalra1 Egypt is the equivalent of running something like 3Dmark2001. It's neither relevant, nor appropriate when compared with the kind of games which really push hardware. PowerVR's SGX is a tile rendering GPU and so scenes, like egypt, which are shader light and texture centric will always run faster on a tile rendering GPU. Egypt's scenes are nothing like real games like Shadowgun where Tegra 3 wins and even Tegra 2 beats the SGX. Geforce ULP is more powerful than SGX.

[shivkalra1]

@zembryoz Egyt offset => tegra 3: 63.1 FPS, A5 SGX 453MP2: 88.1

PRO Offscreen 720 => tegra 3: 82.6, A5 SGX 543MP2: 150.1

Winner: IPAD 2

I know that above tests may be optimized for ios but I'm sure IPAD 2 scores equal not less than TEGRA 3 but considering that IPAD 2 is almost 1year older than TEGRA 3, IPAD 2 is still way ahead.

[shivkalra1]

@zembryoz get your facts straight, GL benchmarks are calculated on same resolutions and A5 GPU wins clearly. I've experience with both the tablets and even websites like google images works way way smoother on ipad 2 than compared to transfomer prime.

[QuiteNot]

@vexx506 yeh, looked again and the tegra3 is obviously better ;  ) the screen on the ipad is less reflective so it seems clearer.