iPad 2 Graphics Performance Blows Away Motorola Xoom, Original iPad
March 13th, 2011 by Brian Hogg 
Anandtech is in the middle of an exhaustive review of the iPad 2. When we say exhaustive, we mean exhaustive; they’re running it through an insane series of tests to exactly measure out the performance of Apple’s new darling. Case in point: yesterday they released the initial results of their look into the GPU performance of the iPad 2.
SPOILER ALERT: It’s fantastic.
In a wide series of tests, the iPad 2 utterly destroyed the performance of the iPad 1, and trounced the new, Nvidia Tegra 2-powered Motorola Xoom, easily performing twice as well visually as the best Android tablet out there. How much better than the iPad 1 did the iPad 2 fare? Apple claims the GPU offers 9 times the performance, but Anandtech found it wasn’t quite that good:
While we weren’t able to reach the 9x figure claimed by Apple (I’m not sure that you’ll ever see 9x running real game code), a range of 3 – 7x in GLBenchmark 2.0 is more reasonable. In practice I’d expect something less than 5x but that’s nothing to complain about.
Even though the iPad 2 failed to deliver a full 9x, it would still allow developers to triple the visual complexity of their games without any loss in visual quality or responsiveness, and by any measure, that’s pretty impressive. Read the breakdown of all the tests Anandtech ran, and check out our review of the new iPad 2.
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March 13th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
We are talking of graphics performance at a lower resolution.
That is like saying my computer runs faster at 640×480 than yours does at 1920×1200.
March 18th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
The difference in resolution is 23% but performance does not drop 23% each time you go up to a higher resolution. The drop has a number of factors including things such as the fill rate of the GPU. Even if you take 23% away from the iPad 2 score that gives you 15.17 which is still almost double what the Xoom is getting. It’s just more powerful.