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GSMArena team, 29 May 2013

Stepping up


Sony Xperia Tablet Z review: Stepping up

  • Comments (71)
  • User reviews
  • Xperia Tablet Z Wi-Fi

5. Google Now, synthetic benchmarks
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, design and build quality, display
  3. 3. Ports and others, battery life
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Google Now, synthetic benchmarks
  6. 6. Contact book, messaging and text input
  7. 7. Gallery, music and video player, FM radio, audio quality
  8. 8. Still and video camera
  9. 9. Connectivity and web browser
  10. 10. Organizer, apps, Google Maps and Play Store
  11. 11. Conclusion
  12.  
  13. Sony Xperia Tablet Z Wi-Fi specification
  14. User opinions and reviews
  15. Review comments (71)

Sony Android Tablets

Google Now

As an integral part of Android Jelly Bean Google Now is present on the Sony Xperia Tablet Z. You can get to it by holding the home button.

In addition to being able to recognize voice commands, Google Now will learn from your usage patterns, and display relevant information. For example, if you search for a particular sports team frequently, Google Now will display information for upcoming games you might want to watch.

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Google Now predicts what info you need right now

The service interacts with you by generating cards which are displayed on your screen and give you a short overview of information it believes is relevant to you. Going to work in the morning? Google Now knows this and lets you know there's a big traffic jam on your usual way to the office, and will offer you an alternate route. This extends to a multitude of other areas, including weather, traffic, public transit stations, and nearby points of interest.

You can either type or talk to Google Now and the app will give you one of its aforementioned info cards (if available) and read you its contents aloud (you can disable this from the app settings). If there's no card to help with the answer to your question, Google Now will simply initiate a Google web search instead.

There is also a Google Now widget which generates information for you based on what your interests are.

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Google Now has a card-based interface • Google Now widgets

Synthetic benchmarks

The Sony Xperia Tablet Z uses the same chipset as its phone counterpart and has almost the same screen resolution - 1920 x 1200 vs. 1920 x 1080 - so we expect to see similar performance.

The CPU benchmarks, Benchmark Pi, Linpack and Geekbench 2 indeed put the two close together, though the Xperia Z / ZL duo has a slight advantage in Linpack. Still, it has a comfortable lead on the Google Nexus 10 tablet in the first two tests, but loses to it in Geekbench 2.

Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    132
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    147
  • HTC One
    151
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    262
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    264
  • Sony Xperia Z
    264
  • HTC Butterfly
    266
  • Oppo Find 5
    267
  • HTC One X+
    280
  • LG Optimus G
    285
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    305
  • Google Nexus 10
    350
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    359
  • Nexus 4
    431

Linpack

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    788
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    743
  • HTC One
    646
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    631
  • Sony Xperia Z
    630
  • HTC Butterfly
    624
  • LG Optimus G
    608
  • Oppo Find 5
    593
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    587.7
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    214.3
  • Nexus 4
    213.5
  • HTC One X+
    177.7
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    175.5
  • Google Nexus 10
    172.1

Geekbench 2

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    3227
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    3040
  • HTC One
    2708
  • Google Nexus 10
    2543
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    2200
  • Sony Xperia Z
    2173
  • HTC Butterfly
    2143
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    1995
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    1845
  • LG Optimus G
    1723
  • iPhone 5
    1601

AnTuTu and Quadrant, which test the whole system (CPU, GPU, storage, etc.), continue this trend - the Xperia Tablet Z performs closely to the phone Xperia Z and ahead of the Nexus 10.

AnTuTu

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    24716
  • HTC One
    22678
  • Sony Xperia Z
    20794
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    20743
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    20216
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    20056
  • HTC Butterfly
    19513
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    15547
  • Oppo Find 5
    15167
  • Google Nexus 10
    12695

Quadrant

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    12376
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    12105
  • HTC One
    11746
  • Sony Xperia Z
    8075
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    7912
  • HTC One X+
    7632
  • LG Optimus G
    7439
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    7215
  • Oppo Find 5
    7111
  • HTC One X
    5952
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    5916
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    5450
  • Nexus 4
    4567
  • Google Nexus 10
    4385

GLBenchmark shows a playable 32fps framerate on the older 2.5 Egypt benchmark (a few frames per second ahead of the Z / ZL phones), but the new, heavier 2.7 T-Rex benchmark drops the framerate down to 13fps. This benchmark is considerably heavier than current generation games.

The Nexus 10 is ahead with its Mali-604 GPU, but its native screen resolution is much higher than the WUXGA of the Xperia Tablet Z so it takes a more powerful GPU to run.

GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p off-screen)

Higher is better

  • Apple iPad 4
    54.4
  • Google Nexus 10
    40
  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    40
  • HTC One
    34
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    32
  • Asus Padfone 2
    31
  • Oppo Find 5
    30
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    29
  • Sony Xperia Z
    29
  • LG Optimus G
    29
  • HTC Butterfly
    27.9
  • Apple iPhone 5
    27
  • Nexus 4
    26
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    17
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    15
  • HTC One X+
    12
  • HTC One X
    9

GLBenchmark 2.7 T-Rex (1080p off-screen)

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    17.1
  • Apple iPad 4
    16.8
  • Google Nexus 10
    13.9
  • LG Optimus G
    13.9
  • Sony Xperia Z
    13.5
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    13
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    12.8

Epic Citadel is closer to what current Android games are like and shows the Tablet Z close to the 60fps software limit. That means that most of the time it runs at 60fps, with more complex areas dropping lower but without major drops. Here you can see the high resolution of the Nexus 10 work against it, making it just about even with the Tablet Z.

Epic Citadel

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    57.1
  • HTC One
    56.4
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    56.4
  • Sony Xperia Z
    55.6
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    55.4
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    54.2
  • Nexus 4
    53.9
  • Asus Padfone 2
    53.4
  • LG Optimus G
    52.6
  • Google Nexus 10
    52.1
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    41.3
  • Oppo Find 5
    38.6

SunSpider shows relatively sluggish JavaScript performance, but that's usually the case with Chrome for Android. The stock browser performs better, but is not available on the Xperia Tablet Z. The Nexus 10 is slightly faster.

Browser Mark 2 puts the tablet close to the current Android flagships as does Vellamo. The Sony tablet pulled ahead of the Google Nexus 10 in those two benchmarks.

SunSpider

Lower is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    810
  • Samsung Ativ S
    891
  • Apple iPhone 5
    915
  • Nokia Lumia 920
    910
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    972
  • HTC One X+
    1001
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    1011
  • Motorola RAZR i XT890
    1059
  • HTC One
    1124
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    1192
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    1290
  • Sony Xperia Z
    1336
  • LG Optimus G
    1353
  • HTC Butterfly
    1433
  • Google Nexus 10
    1462
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    1629
  • Nexus 4
    1971

BrowserMark 2

Higher is better

  • LG Optimus G
    2555
  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    2438
  • HTC One
    2262
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    2170
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    2107
  • Sony Xperia Z
    2093
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    1801
  • Oppo Find 5
    1797
  • Nexus 4
    1794
  • Nokia Lumia 920
    1774
  • Google Nexus 10
    1773
  • HTC Butterfly
    1475
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    1247

Vellamo

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    2418
  • HTC One
    2382
  • Sony Xperia Tablet Z
    2265
  • Sony Xperia Z
    2189
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    2186
  • HTC One X (Tegra 3)
    2078
  • Samsung Galaxy S4
    2060
  • Google Nexus 10
    1929
  • HTC Butterfly
    1866
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    1641
  • LG Optimus G
    1522
  • Nexus 4
    1310
Next Page » 6. Contact book, messaging and text input
5. Google Now, synthetic benchmarks
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, design and build quality, display
  3. 3. Ports and others, battery life
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Google Now, synthetic benchmarks
  6. 6. Contact book, messaging and text input
  7. 7. Gallery, music and video player, FM radio, audio quality
  8. 8. Still and video camera
  9. 9. Connectivity and web browser
  10. 10. Organizer, apps, Google Maps and Play Store
  11. 11. Conclusion
  12.  
  13. Sony Xperia Tablet Z Wi-Fi specification
  14. User opinions and reviews
  15. Review comments (71)

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