(05-26-2017, 12:44 AM)cruise871 Wrote: [ -> ]There are 2 different versions of this Tablet
One with the Snapdragon 650 and one with the MT8176
The problem with the MT8176 is the GPU , PowerVR drivers are a huge bottleneck , I would expect garbled visuals and sub 10fps Even with the A72's
You can expect that but you'd be wrong. Aside from some shader compilation bugs that don't yet have a major impact on the visuals, it's pretty consistently above 10FPS on devices like the Mi Pad 3 that share the same processor.
(05-26-2017, 12:53 AM)Nintonito Wrote: [ -> ]You can expect that but you'd be wrong. Aside from some shader compilation bugs that don't yet have a major impact on the visuals, it's pretty consistently above 10FPS on devices like the Mi Pad 3 that share the same processor.
Okay well thats better consider me wrong.
Would he be better off getting the Snapdragon 650 version instead ?
(05-26-2017, 02:10 AM)cruise871 Wrote: [ -> ]Okay well thats better consider me wrong.
Would he be better off getting the Snapdragon 650 version instead ?
I'm looking for that version but I cant find it. I'm wondering the same question though.
(05-26-2017, 02:10 AM)cruise871 Wrote: [ -> ]Okay well thats better consider me wrong.
Would he be better off getting the Snapdragon 650 version instead ?
Generally speaking yes but that version is harder to come by
(05-26-2017, 12:53 AM)Nintonito Wrote: [ -> ]You can expect that but you'd be wrong. Aside from some shader compilation bugs that don't yet have a major impact on the visuals, it's pretty consistently above 10FPS on devices like the Mi Pad 3 that share the same processor.
What shader compilation bugs are these? The only one I'm aware of on in GLES should now be worked around in dolphin itself?
One thing to be aware of with MTK is they *extremely* rarely seem interested in updating the graphics drivers. Often they run rather old buggy versions, and often never update the drivers for released products.
(05-26-2017, 03:23 AM)JonnyH Wrote: [ -> ]What shader compilation bugs are these? The only one I'm aware of on in GLES should now be worked around in dolphin itself?
One thing to be aware of with MTK is they *extremely* rarely seem interested in updating the graphics drivers. Often they run rather old buggy versions, and often never update the drivers for released products.
So should I look for new drivers to install manually then? Like putting on a CFW?
BTW, thanks again for everyone's help. I know I went against the original's thought's with new information, maybe I was looking for an echo of "hope I hear it works" to pull the trigger. The tablet is being drop shipped to me tomorrow morning so I'll report back what I find!
(05-26-2017, 05:29 AM)joehempel Wrote: [ -> ]So should I look for new drivers to install manually then? Like putting on a CFW?
BTW, thanks again for everyone's help. I know I went against the original's thought's with new information, maybe I was looking for an echo of "hope I hear it works" to pull the trigger. The tablet is being drop shipped to me tomorrow morning so I'll report back what I find!
The problem here is that the drivers are often device/build specific, so you can't just "install another driver" unless another driver for /exactly/ the same device has been released somewhere else.
For example, the latest firmware for the asus zenpad 3s seems to have the same "1.5" version of the graphics driver the first firmware was released with (from late 2015) - so no vulkan, no gles3.2, lots of bugs.
It's really annoying seeing all this from the other side... But there's nothing you can really do other than annoy asus, who then will feed back that up the chain and actually update this crap.
(05-26-2017, 07:31 AM)JonnyH Wrote: [ -> ]The problem here is that the drivers are often device/build specific, so you can't just "install another driver" unless another driver for /exactly/ the same device has been released somewhere else.
For example, the latest firmware for the asus zenpad 3s seems to have the same "1.5" version of the graphics driver the first firmware was released with (from late 2015) - so no vulkan, no gles3.2, lots of bugs.
It's really annoying seeing all this from the other side... But there's nothing you can really do other than annoy asus, who then will feed back that up the chain and actually update this crap.
Ahh I got ya, that kind of stinks, BUT I've been doing a bit of research on this particular unit and they are expecting to release an update, however, when, well, that's another story. I think something about the time that they upgrade Android because I know they use their own ASUS UI on top of Android so who knows. I may root the thing and just install stock android on it if I can do it without breaking it.