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Misleading how? It's an FPS graph between devices. Do you want to scale the Xoom score? It will still be more than doubled by the iPad 2.
by YooLi 16y ago
Misleading how? It's an FPS graph between devices. Do you want to scale the Xoom score? It will still be more than doubled by the iPad 2.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoCheck out this graph with more devices: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4191/35571.png http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4191/35571.png Tegra2 phones do better than Tegra2 tablets and the iPhone4 does better than the iPad 1. Look how well the iPhone 3GS does due to its lower resolution. In short, higher resolution screens are penalised by this benchmark.
- ugh 16y agoUhm, yeah. But how is that relevant? The Xoom actually has that many pixels. The whole package matters.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoSo your takeaway from this is that iPhone 3GS has a better GPU than the iPad? Or that it's a better "package" than the iPhone 4? It's a benchmark. If you don't know what it's actually measuring then you might as well not bother.
- ugh 16y agoMy takeaway is that you can expect better graphics performance on an iPhone 3GS than on an iPad 1 or iPhone 4, yes. If you are not designing tablets and deciding what GPU to put in there, comparisons between GPUs are completely meaningless. You have to look at the whole device. Looking at GPUs in isolation in tablets is about as meaningless as looking at their batteries in isolation. How many watt-hours they have is only a poor proxy for their runtime.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoWell, I have to admit I'm surprised that you're saying that the iPhone 4 has worse "graphics performance" than such classic phones as the Nokia N900, the famously GPU-poor Nexus One, the venerable Motorola Droid and the cheapo Optimus One. And I'm not even bothering to mention any device in the top half of the table that all beat even the amazing 3GS. But if you're that determined to argue that the iPhone 4 and iPad as a package suck at "graphics performance" to the extent shown on that link I provided then who am I to argue with such a revelatory benchmark. Those Android guys must really have their act together when it comes to holistic design.
- ugh 16y agoThe only alternative that I see is that the benchmark is rubbish.