All device scores fluctuate heavily between different runs and typically the highest official score is taken for the final placement. Of course highly convenient that there's only ONE T4 based device now in the database and for a quite limited time, which serves your purpose pretty well to even further bend reality until it gets even more ridiculous.
This statement makes no sense.
Statistically speaking, when looking at a large distribution of scores, it generally makes the most sense to use the Median score (or Average score if the Median score is not available) for comparison to another single data point, because the Median score represents the mid-point around which all scores are distributed (ie. there are just as many scores below the Median score as there are scores above the Median score). In the case of the SGS4 S600 variant, the Median score (
http://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?D=Sa...+S4&testgroup=overall&benchmark=gfx27&var=med ) happens to match up very closely with the Average score (
http://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?D=Sa...+S4&testgroup=overall&benchmark=gfx27&var=avg ) and with the Anandtech Review score (
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6914/54302.png ). So compared to the Median score of S600-powered SGS4 and HTC One, the T4-powered SlateBook x2 is close to 25-37% faster, respectively, in GFXBench 2.5 Egypt HD Offscreen (1080p) test.
Note that there are several ways to get higher-than-average or higher-than-median benchmark scores. One is to run short individual graphics tests so that the SoC does not heat up enough to thermally throttle frequencies. Two is to test the device in a freezer or in frigid temperatures so that the SoC does not heat up enough to thermally throttle frequencies. Three is to root the device to manipulate operating frequencies. Since the vast majority of consumers will not test their device under any of these conditions, it makes perfect sense to use the Median (or Average) score when it comes to statistical analysis versus another data point. The only time it would make sense to
not use a Median (or Average) score is if there was a significant change in performance through a recent software update, but these phones have only been on the market for a few weeks, so it is unlikely that this would be the case (and even if this was the case, it would still be erroneous to focus on one top score out of many other lower scores for the reasons mentioned above).
See above. It's definitely not my fault that T4 has such a lame design win amount
The number of design wins is completely irrelevant to what was being discussed. Anyway, more important from a consumer perspective is the
quality of design wins. I'd say that T4 design wins with HP SlateBook x2, Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, Toshiba Excite Pro, Toshiba Excite Write (and surely more to be announced at a later date such as the Vizio high res tablet) all represent quality tablet or tablet convertible designs at a reasonable price for consumers. The HP SlateBook x2 is $479 USD retail price
with an attachable keyboard and
with a battery integrated inside the keyboard. The Asus Transformer Pad Infinity is $399 USD retail price
with a 2560x1600 resolution screen and
with an optional attachable keyboard + battery integrated inside the keyboard available for only $100 USD more.
Unfortunately with the GLB2.5/2.7 merge the GLB2.5 MSAA results are gone, but I don't recall any unexpected big drop for MSAA on a Adreno320 either.
I do believe that you are very wrong here, because I seem to recall that Adreno 320 actually
does have a significant drop in performance when moving from no MSAA to 4xMSAA in GLB2.5, and certainly a much larger drop in performance than something such as SGX 5xx.
