How is the performance of Surface RT? Tolerable but rather slow would be my quick summary. Surface RT has a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset.<\/p>\n
In order to investigate further, I built a simple app to count primes, using essentially the code here<\/a>. I ran the code both in JavaScript and in C#. This is a single ad-hoc and naive test that only covers one aspect of performance, but I have still found it an interesting indicator. I then ran the app both on my Intel Core i5 Samsung Slate and on Surface RT (yes it was interesting figuring out how to debug on Surface RT in a hotel room).<\/p>\n Here are the results:<\/p>\n On Intel Core i5:<\/p>\n On Surface RT:<\/p>\n The Core i5 is running at 1.6 Ghz. Surface RT has an NVidia Tegra 3 1.3 Ghz chipset.<\/p>\n You could count primes more quickly in both cases by using parallel processing; this is a single-threaded test.<\/p>\n What is notable here?<\/p>\n Of course, other performance tests will yield different results. When I tried<\/a> the Sunspider JavaScript test Surface RT was about 5 times slower.<\/p>\n One piece of good news: there was little difference between performance in the embedded or non-embedded browser.<\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: I also tried this test in C++. There was barely any difference. The Core i5 counted primes up to 10,000,000 in 6 seconds. The Surface RT performed the same feat in 46 seconds.<\/p>\n Update 2<\/strong>: A Google Nexus 7, which also has a Tegra 3 chipset, can only manage 76 seconds for the JavaScript test (primes up to 10,000,000). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How is the performance of Surface RT? Tolerable but rather slow would be my quick summary. Surface RT has a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset. In order to investigate further, I built a simple app to count primes, using essentially the code here. I ran the code both in JavaScript and in C#. This is … Continue reading Investigating Surface RT performance: Counting primes in C# and JavaScript<\/span> \n
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