In TouchXPRT 2013, which I think is CPU-only. CPU-wise what's different between CT and CT+, 1.8GHz to 2GHz? I wonder how well threaded TouchXPRT is.
Speaking of which, I wonder if TouchXPRT is using ICC for the Win 8 version, and/or Intel's math libraries (big functions of TouchXPRT are image enhance and photo export which could easily be swayed by quality of SIMD.. no idea what "podcast" does). There has to be a reason why Intel would be compelled to showcase a much less well-known Windows benchmark over an Android one. Although at least these scores look less ridiculous than the AnTuTu ones.
Then again, judging by power consumption here:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6536/arm-vs-x86-the-real-showdown/5
It looks like the Snapdragon S4 takes about as long as the Atom in most tests - at least for photo enhance, photo export, and podcast. And yet, who else could competitor B be? Are there any other ARM SoCs in WinRT products outside of Tegra 3 and Snapdragon S4Pro? Maybe the hugely different video test is what's screwing it up. That one has definitely got to be a software issue. I wonder why AT gave scores here for WebXPRT and not TouchXPRT. I guess they're probably in another review.
So this new slide deck repeats the 50% improvement for Merrifield claim, and looks especially odd when paired next to a claim of 100% improvement for BayTrail-T. Is it really certain that they're talking about a 4C SoC? If so it must be clocking pretty low, but I don't see why they need to go so conservative with clocks - surely it should be capable of boosting pretty high so it can win those benchmarks by the biggest amounts possible, er, so they can have good burst performance for loading webpages and apps.
For me the GPU comparison vs Clovertrail is more interesting (or should I use the word "telling") than the CPU one. The best Egypt HD score I can find for an SGX540 Intel device is here:
http://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx27&D=Asus+ME371MG I thought this might be worse than Clovertrail since it's just Lexington, but an actual Clovertrail score here looks worse:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6872/...ndows-tablets-compared-using-gldxbenchmark-27
4x this score would be about 28-34fps which isn't that impressive for late 2013 tablets. It's also close to what CloverTrail+ already does in phones (
http://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx27&D=Lenovo+K900), a score also in line with Intel's original CT+ projections. No wonder they don't want to make that comparison.
It's going to be really funny if Merrifield has a faster GPU than Bay Trail-T.