Performance: A Prime Equal - ASUS Transformer Pad 300 (TF300T) Review

Publish date: 2024-06-24

Performance: A Prime Equal

With nearly identical specs to the Transformer Prime, the Transformer Pad 300 obviously performs quite similarly - particularly in the more software/CPU bound workloads:

SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark 0.9.1

Rightware BrowserMark

The simulated gaming performance benchmarks in GLBench actually don't show much of a drop from the lower GPU frequency, which is a good thing if it means that actual gaming performance won't drop compared to the Prime:

GLBenchmark 2.1 - Pro (Standard)

GLBenchmark 2.1 - Egypt (Standard)

GLBenchmark 2.1 - Pro - Offscreen 720p

GLBenchmark 2.1 - Egypt - Offscreen 720p

The low level tests however, particularly those that are shader bound, do show a tangible gap in performance between T30 and T30L:

GLBenchmark 2.1 - Triangle Test (White)

GLBenchmark 2.1 - Triangle Test (Textured, Fragment Lit)

GLBenchmark 2.1 - Fill Test

Notice the higher fill rate for the 300 compared to the Prime? I believe this is the result of the increase in memory bandwidth (2.67GB/s vs. 2.0GB/s, peak theoretical) thanks to the use of DDR3-667 in the 300.

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