Hands-On With Qualcomm's Snappy Snapdragon S4 Pro Tablet

25.07.2012

On two other benchmark tests, the S4 Pro MDP/T continued to show its mettle. On Nenamark 2, it scored 60 fps to the Infinity's 40 fps, and on Basemark Taiji Free, it scored a 60, to the Asus's 7.

While the S4 Pro clearly excelled in the numbers it posted, the real proof lies in how the S4 Pro platform could improve the user experience through better performance. Experience can be a tricky thing to measure, though, given that even if a system-on-chip platform has the potential to do X in performance, the software that you're running on it may not be optimized to take advantage of that power.

So what did I see during my time using the tablet?

The S4 Pro MDP/T may have the potential to be superfast at Web browsing, but my ability to gauge this consistently was constrained by the hotel conference area's Wi-Fi connection. It seemed to load pages quickly, but the experience was mixed (and other tablets struggled at the same time, too).