[Asus Transformer TF700] BarryH_GEG:
Sites like Engadget are pretty casual in their performance evaluations. I want to see the more detailed and standardized tests that AnandTech, GSMArena, and Swedroid run before forming an opinion. That includes display color, contrast, and brightness tests run at different levels.

On paper, an A15 chip, even dual core, should outperform an A9 chip. Part of the issue is that the N10 is running a generic 4.2 OS with zero optimizations for the h/w. It's no different than it is with the GN. Once the devs get their hands on the kernel and OS those Engadget scores will look comically low.

Even at that pixel count the GPU should outperform everything else out there. Engadget really didn't do any detailed testing. The only possible drawback is that while the fill king, Mali's struggled with textures. If that's been rectified in the new GPU than the N10 should be the reigning king.

As for comparisons against the TF700, once again a review site has overlooked its shortcoming which we've all discussed ad nauseam here. If the TF700 and the components used to create it and its assembly were "perfect" I think choosing it over the N10 would be a lot easier choice. Especially for the general public that aren't going to take it apart and put it back together again s/w wise to achieve the satisfaction some of you guys have.

From a sales perspective the Engadget review changes nothing for the masses. I doubt the general consumer looking at it will see anything but the pixel count of the display. With its retina display, Apple's trained people that the higher the PPI the better and more premium the product. Hell, even they are taking flack based on using a perfectly fine but not "retina” display on the Mini. The average consumer also (foolishly)probably doesn't care about storage so at $399 the N10 will cannibalize the sales of 10” Android tablets with the exception of people buying the TF700 for its keyboard and the Note 10.1 for its pen.

We can have more fact-based performance and display conversations once the more thorough sites post their findings.

EDIT...

Anandtech's posted some benchmarks a few hours ago. It's not a full test but it's a lot more detailed than Engadget's. They tell a different story than Engadget's too and are close to what you'd expect.

CPU Performance

The big story when it comes to CPU performance is a look at how the Cortex A15s perform under Android. Unfortunately we're still left with mostly browser based benchmarks to measure CPU performance, which actually highlights a major issue in our testing: Android V8 optimization doesn't seem to be anywhere near as good as it is under Chrome OS or Windows. As a result, all of the Nexus 10 performance scores end up slower than the new Chromebook - despite using the same SoC and running Chrome on both platforms. It's also possible that the Exynos 5 Dual in the Chromebook is allowed to burn a bit more power, translating to better performance, but either way the solution here in the Nexus 10 doesn't look as good across the board. BrowserMark puts the Nexus 10 behind many platforms that should be faster, I'm even wondering here if there's some hard partitioning of memory bandwidth between the CPU nd GPU to drive the 2560 x 1600 display that's simply choking the CPU here. Octane is the first test where the Cortex A15s are really able to flex their muscle - the Exynos 5 Dual based Nexus 10 manages to outperform the RAZR i by 34%, and compared to the A6/Swift based iPhone 5 the advantage grows to 64%

GPU Performance

This section is particularly exciting because it's our first look at ARM's new Mali-T604 GPU in our standard mobile 3D performance suite. We've already seen the Nexus 4's Adreno 320 in action, but the Nexus 10's behavior here should be interesting to see. As far as raw fillrates are concerned, both Nexus devices do quite well here at their native resolutions. The iPad and iPhone 5 are both quicker, but we're still good gains over the previous generation of hardware - particularly for the Mali-T604. Compared to the Mali-400MP4 in the Galaxy S 3, we're seeing more than 2x the performance out of ARM's latest GPU. The T604 is ARM's first unified shader architecture, which gives it far more balanced pixel/vertex shader performance. The result is a more than 4x increase in triangle throughput compared to the Mali 400MP4. It's not enough to give the Nexus 10 the edge over the latest Apple devices, but it's a huge improvement over where ARM was in the previous generation. The Adreno 320 continues to be quite strong here as well.

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