Asus 1215N and performances – plus comparison with the 1201N

There’s a lot of hype around my review of the Asus 1215N posted a couple of days ago. Now, as i promised (however, with quite a delay, as only now i managed to snug it again for a couple of hours), here’s another post with more details on performances and some extra tests.

Also, I’m going to try to compare benchmark results from this 1215N (with D525 1.8 GHz processor 4GB of DDR3 RAM and new ION) to the ones of the 1201N (with D330 1.6 GHz processor, 2 GB of DDR2 memory and the older ION ). See details below.

First of all, let’s see some CPU tests. I have to say that results for the 1215N are based on my tests, while those for the 1201N are based on the results from the test here.

Results for SuperPI and wPrime are available below. Due to the very little time I had with the device i was not able to run wPrime 1024 and SuperPI 32M . You can see that the processor on the 1215N is slightly faster in these tests.

Super PI 1M/2M and wPrime 32M on Atom 330 and D525

3Dmark 2006 scores are below. First picture on default resolution of the program (1280 x 768 px) and second on the standard resolution for the device (1366 x 768 px).

3Dmark2006 default - 1280 x 768

3Dmark 2006 native - 1366 x 768

In comparison, the 1201 scored 1583 points in this test, with only 767 for CPU, based on the results from this test (they don’t mention resolution for the test though, but I would assume is one of the two above).

Also, here are the results for PCMark 2005.

PC Mark 2005 results

Based on several sources found online, the 1201N scored around 1600-1800 in this one, but I could not any source worth believing, so take this with grain and salt (if any of you guys own the 1201N and could help with some details here, that would be much appreciated)

Now, many of you guys asked me about performances in terms of playing self-stored and Flash 1080p content.

I’ve given those another and more detailed look. With self-stored content, everything runs great, including outputting content on a FULL-HD display via HDMI. That of course, after installing the $9.99 codecs packs from CoreAVC (i had problems playing HD content before).

Now, in terms of Flash. I’ve installed Flash 10.1.53.64 on the device and tried running 720p/1080p clips from Youtube. Both ran decently on the device (see processor load in the picture below).

1080p Flash playing from Youtube

However, when trying to output content on the bigger display, the computer chocks with 1080p, although processor load still stays down (around 35%). 720p is fine. That probably means the software problems mentioned by you guys in the comments and seen on other ION2 devices tested before are still here. I’ve tried looking for new Nvidia drivers but I’m pretty sure I have the latest available. Still, I do have to point out that 1080P Flash played OK on the 12 inch display, even in Full-Screen. But not so much on a 24inch Full HD screen. The good part is that this bottleneck can be solved with better drivers, the bad point is that we don’t know when will this happen.

You can also see Windows Rating for the device below: 3.3 , lowest for graphics. The second picture is for the 1201N and is taken from here. According to it, graphics are better on the 1201N, but other tests say otherwise and I tend to believe them more than this rating. Also, I found other results in here, so not sure what to really believe. Maybe you can help in her as well.

Windows Rating for 1215N

Windows rating for EEE PC 1201N

Also, you can find below some synthetic tests from Sisoftware Sandra in the pic below, could not find any results for 1201N to compare them with. Oh, and sry for the small pic, I did not have the inspiration to save it a bigger format also, but hopefully you can understand the scores

Scores in Sisoftware Sandra

In the end, I know there are a lot more things I could have included in this post. But having the device only for a limited time limited me only to these. Plus, the fact that I did not had the chance to test the 1201N before damaged my comparisons, having to rely on results from others tests, which is something i don’t actually like to do.

Also, don’t forget about this clip where I’ve showcased some of the performances for this 12 incher.

Still, I do hope this post was useful. Questions and feedback appreciated, as always.

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Tags: 12.1" netbooks, Asus netbooks, benchmarks, Nvidia Ion 2

Last updated: October 3, 2011 | Published: August 13th, 2010 | See the comments or add yours!