ASUS MeMO Pad 7 Review: Intel Bay Trail Inside

Name: ASUS MeMO Pad 7 Review: Intel Bay Trail Inside
Brand: ASUS

by Joshua Gulick — Friday, July 11, 2014, 01:00 PM EDT

Take a look at the Google Play Store and you’ll see just how big the “casual” mobile game scene has become. Graphics capabilities matter, and Intel has been touting Bay Trail’s performance. We fired up couple graphics benchmarks to see how the ASUS MeMO Pad 7 stacks up.

Graphics Testing

Android Graphics Performance

Understandably, the ASUS MeMO Pad 7 is no match for larger tablets from Apple and Samsung, which have more room for higher-end hardware. The comparison worth making here is with other 7-inch tablets, like the 2013 version of Google’s Nexus 7. That tablet falls 655 points behind the ASUS MeMO Pad 7.

The MeMO Pad 7 also handled 3DMark Ice Storm (Extreme) well, giving even the Windows-based Dell Venue 8 Pro a run for its money. The tablet also scored well in the Unlimited version of Futuremark’s multi-platform 3DMark Ice Storm test, with 13535. Intel tells us the tablet has scored as high as 13683 in the Unlimited test, which is designed to exclude operating system characteristics that could make cross-platform comparisons inaccurate.

Tags: Intel, Asus, tablet, Silvermont, Bay Trail, NASDAQ: INTC

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.