Tech savvy help requested

How would this affect a game like War Robots or BoT?

War Robots is constantly sending and receiving information, when someone moves or shoots at you, it sends new info to your phone, when your bot gets shot, not only does that info pass to you that someone shot you and from where and for how much damage, but that info is also returned back to the person who shot you.

All that takes significant time and with all the graphics and game info switching hands, a slower processor will generally show lag, which makes it hard for you to hit what you’re aiming at.

My wife’s brand new iPad has almost no lag except from server or other players, but my phone (not old a 6+) has difficulty running the game when it starts getting battle intensive, and I’m fairly sure 1.2ghz is what my phone runs at as well.

Pixo needs to optimize their code, and I prolly need a new phone lol. Only when batteries die do I replace them.

The posted specs are for a Google Android gaming tablet listed at $400. I'm wondering if the quadcore specification means that it actually has four 1.2 Ghz processors as I've seen other quadcore devices advertised as being and therefore it is more than capable of running high end apps?

Any idea about the GPU used?

Because, the GPU(Graphics Processing Unit) renders all on-screen animations (especially 3D animations like the ones you see in War Robots) and it is a very important component for gaming.

A 1.2GHz processor and 2GB RAM for 400$ is not worth it IMHO. Heck, even a 3 year-old Snapdragon 810 has a clock speed of 2GHz.

Are you buying the device just for gaming?

If you want to run War Robots or any other latest games, I would suggest you look for the following specs while choosing your device

1. A CPU with a minimum clock speed of 1.8 GHz or more.
2. A GPU with a minimum clock speed of 650 MHz or more.
3. A RAM storage of 3 GB or more.
4. A minimum Hard-drive storage 32 GB or more.

I hope this helps.

For that price tag you should be able to get an iPad. The iPads have better hardware for the money. Android tablets can be bought much cheaper but also with even lower hw spec.as far as I know there are not many good gaming android tablets round. There was a thread on that topic.

I've had Apple products in the past and I've been disappointed with all of them. I've never had any issues with Android devices myself.

What SoC does it use? 1,2 Ghz sounds really old. My 3yo Nexus phone has 4*2 Ghz and doesn't work too well with War Robots. 

I may be hated for it, but think about some Chinese tablets.

Maybe a Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 for 200 USD?
www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_pad_4-9249.php 


I'm using phone from Xiaomi - Redmi 4X, 4GB RAM - right now about 150 USD and it runs War Robots quite well for past year.

Why should you be hated for this suggestion? Pretty much every phone, notebook, tablet, screen and so on originates in China. Xiaomi is a good brand. 

Xiaomi is copying Apple design for quite a while.
Some Apple die-hards may not like it

There must be a reason Xiaomi is not officially selling phones in US... or so I was told

that’s a very short-sighted view. Just because all the components come out of China doesn’t mean their all 「dookie」ty or good components. It’s up to the manufacturers to decide the quality of components

Am sorry to say this, but the MT6582 is a lower mid-range CPU with only 1.3 GHz clock speed. It can never run War Robots efficiently (I don't know if it can even run War Robots).

Took the following quote from notebookcheck.net about the MT6582,
"The CPU performance of the MT6582 is similar to other Cortex-A7 SoCs clocked at the same frequency. Depending on the benchmark, the CPU power is roughly comparable with the Nvidia Tegra 3 and sufficient for everyday applications such as browsing. The GPU will handle only simple Android games in moderate resolutions."

So, this setup is not suitable if you want to play War Robots with it.