A new video pitting two mystery Android tablets against each other has been produced by ARM, reports VR Zone. The video purports to compare real world gaming performance on two similar Android tablets; one with a quad-core ARM Cortex A9-based CPU chip clocked at 1.4 GHz and the other powered by a dual-core Intel Clover Trail+ processor running at 1.6 GHz.
For such a comparison we would expect the other system specs to be very similar if not equal, however the YouTube description only says the two tablets have the “same size screens”. That doesn’t help the comparison at all... As a sharp retort to some previous Intel benchmarks showing better AnTuTu scores the description below ARM’s new video says this side-by-side comparison video uses “a real application rather than a synthetic benchmark”.
As the video starts both tablets run the Need for Speed: Most Wanted game for Android. The ARM-based game load time, from prodding the game icon to racing along the tarmac was is 48.92 seconds. Already, at this early stage, Intel is behind – the Intel powered tablet took 85.48 seconds, 36 seconds more.
Futhermore we are told that the in game timer is based upon the frame rate and comparisons give rounded figures of the racing game performing at approx 40fps on the ARM tablet but only 30fps on the Intel version.
The video goes on to point out that the ARM tablet is roughly a year older than the Intel one we see playing the game. The reporting sleuths over at VR-Zone think that from this and other info given that the two tablets could be the ARM based 2012 version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and the Intel-based Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 released just recently.
Both ARM and Intel have newer, better chips available or coming out shortly. Nevertheless it’s still interesting to see ARM create and publish this kind of video.
