Anandtech put the iPad 2 under a GLBenchmark 2.0 test, a great benchmark for seeing the power of the GPU (where Apple is claiming 9x the performance of the original iPad), and came away with some staggering results. The iPad 2, or I guess more specifically, the A5 chip is going to be an absolute beast for 3D gaming. It’s incredible, it’s almost silly to put the Tegra 2 (which is in the Xoom) and A4 in the same conversation as the A5. Anandtech says:
Developers with existing titles on the iPad could conceivably triple geometry complexity with no impact on performance on the iPad 2. [...]There’s just no competition here.
You should check out the rest of the benchmarks at Anandtech. Be sure to see the difference in graphics between the iPad 2 and original iPad with Infinity Blade too. [Anandtech]
Michael
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 8:12 PMThe xoom is running at a higher resolution than the iPad causing the iPad to run much faster, I still think the Android is better
matt
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 8:55 PMit isn’t (graphics power wise, anyway), tegra 2 isn’t really that powerful, it will struggle to run any decent looking games at 60fps at that 1280×800 native res.
I think the amazing thing here is that Apple ONLY blatantly and publicly exaggerated by 3 times!
so the gpu is 3 times as powerful, which means it wouldn’t have been able to handle a ‘retina display’ (4 times the pixels) because as you can see from the above, the old ipad’s gpu struggled to do any real GPU stuff at a decent framerate.
this chip is running the benchmark (which is probably pretty intensive) at nearly 60… so yeah, its almost certainly going to be awesome for gaming! (well, except for the controls…)
Anthony
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 8:26 PMWell the xoom’s resolution IS about a 30% increase compared to the ipad screen but that doesn’t translate to a 30% difference in performance. The SGX543MP2 is just a better chip. Have you ever switched between resolutions on a computer game? Your game’s speed doesn’t drop 30% each time you go to a higher resolution. There are no Tegra devices with a 1024×768 resolution so we won’t know for sure.
William Irving
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 11:20 PMres is about taking an image and spliting it up. when you reach the upper point of the systems capability /speed/ram then you reach a tipping point at which if you go over it you notice a massive drop in performace. when you up the res then any one component could potentially reach that point 30% sooner.
its like when your playing a game and its running smooth and then an explosion happens or a swarm or something and the entire game goes from pretty smooth to completely unplayable for the duration of the explosion. its quite common for my old lappy to dump 15 frams a second in heavy load at a higher res and only 5 at a lower res where the average is 30.
having said that benchmarks are based on averages and on average the game doesnt slow down 30 percent.
this is not to say that the xoom hasnt just been bitch slapped. oh it has and hard. its just not as much as the numbers say.
Lebron James
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 8:31 PMPfft, typical Gizmodo response. Always Pro Apple and always a skewed view when they review apple vs anything products. Similiar the T3 magazine. what rubbish website.
matt
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 9:01 PMthey may be pro apple, but from a graphics standpoint. the ipad2 DOES SHIT ALL OVER THE Xoom!
just look at all the bench marks!
the tegra 2′s texture fill rate (you know, 90% of what a gpu does) is WORSE than the FIRST ipad’s! (even with the extra res… after all this time, it should AT LEAST have been as good…)
now, it might not be just the gpu, could be the drivers, the implementation by moto, or android. but there is no denying that the Xoom will be disappointing for games, and the ipad 2 will be great! (graphically)
James Brown
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 9:21 PMMaybe. But this review wasn’t by Gizmodo. They’ve just cut & paste Anandtech.
Seems to me like your response is the typical Android fanboy response, just like the previous posts. If it isn’t pro Android, the article is biased.
James
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 10:30 PMWould you call Gizmodo less “skewed” if they’d twisted the numbers to adhere to a view you subscribed to? The hypocrisy in that statement is amazing. I’m an avid Android fan too, but they’re numbers. There’s no biased journalism in simply publishing a table. If you’d followed the source link you’d know that Gizmodo could have taken any graph on the page and demonstrated the same result. The iPad 2 is faster. Blind fanboyism won’t change that, and Motorola doesn’t need you to defend them.
William Irving
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 11:28 PMi think his point is that everything must in the end be compared to apple…its a little irritating.
but then what can you do its the industry standard in personal tech (exept their computers which inevitably are overpriced) gizmodo cant just ignore it.
mind you apple are sneaky bastards because you compare the price of an ipad to the xoom but then you dont count the 30% of all app and subscription and music sales NOT going to motorola every time you spend a cent on extra stuff for it. which is exactly why its so hard for everyone to compete with apple cause apple makes their money off the apps not the device like everyone else has to.
pacificstorm
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 10:46 PMYou are comparing ipad’s much lower resolution to xoom’s much higher resolution? Is this suppose to be a joke, right? What’s next? Ipad’s state of the art vga camera or it’s malnourished form factor? Lol
Daniel
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 12:00 AMMuch higher resolution? Hardly. The difference is barely noticeable.
Michael
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 10:52 PM^
Lebron James
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 11:32 PMTHe point being is, I have never, EVER seen Gizmodo say Apple < Android, even if Apple came out with a table cloth they will be "OMG, best cloth ever, it has the highest DPI (dots per inch) that a rag can get, and picks up everything". Might as well call them Gizmoappledo.
The Tegra is definately a power house, your right maybe the drivers are not the best as of yet, but hardware wise, the Xoom (or any other tegra device) would be much better then the iPad2.
Btw, does it help that I have a windows phone 7? or You still gonna call me a fan boy?
seamus
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 10:54 AMNo, I’m just going to say you have terrible taste in OS.
Daniel
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 1:18 PMSorry Lebron, but the benchmarks obviously say otherwise. The hardware is obviously superior, by quite a margin.
Michael
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 10:31 AMok I agree the graphics are better on the iPad 2 but most games are crap 2D games and there are hardly any good 3D games, might come across 1 or 2 but I’m sick of slow ram even with 512, doesn’t that come into account at all?
working dog
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 1:32 PManyone know where I can find a site like this for grown ups?
Bruno
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 4:23 PMOnly grown up’s use this site.
Ross Weekes
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 5:36 PMAll of this arguing is pretty irrelevant anyway seeing as how the majority of non-tech savy buyers (remeber there are millions selling) aren’t lining em up to see who’s is bigger..
They will buy on what they prefer and what they know.
fanroids buy adroids
fapples buy apples
:|
nuff said..
flakefrost
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 10:45 PMipad 1st gen is faster than xoom with most things… especially scrolling down with the native browsers