Err the intel chip is usually among the 2nd and 3rd best and it has 2 fewer cores. And far from "50%" slower. Its rather close to them.
I find that pretty good. In fact, Anandtech found that pretty good as well.
You seem to be looking mostly at the GPU scores, and intel doesn't make those GPUs.
Switching to a faster GPU in the future would solve that. Not that the current GPU they use is any slow anyway, there will not be a single Android app lagging on this.
And all this with a crappy assembler as you said.
It's also running GB vs ICS. ICS makes some of the benchmarks a lot faster (specially your favorite, the webkit bench ;-)
I'm also surprised by the exposure time setting. I've no idea how useable it is on a phone but I always wanted that, at least to be able to try it.
You seem to be looking mostly at the GPU scores, and intel doesn't make those GPUs. Switching to a faster GPU in the future would solve that. Not that the current GPU they use is any slow anyway, there will not be a single Android app lagging on this.
And all this with a crappy assembler as you said. It's also running GB vs ICS. ICS makes some of the benchmarks a lot faster (specially your favorite, the webkit bench ;-)
I'm also surprised by the exposure time setting. I've no idea how useable it is on a phone but I always wanted that, at least to be able to try it.