But the Xoom is not at a lower resolution. We are comparing the performance of the devices not the SoCs. And GLBenchmark originated on Android and was ported to iOS later on...so I would assume it's more optimized on Android. This may not be an accurate comparison of SoCs but it is a highly accurate comparison of the…

There are like 9 different tests in the article.

They are different tests that test different things. It just shows how big the margin is depending on the test.

Xoom: nVidia GeForce ULV

But you see no one is going to make an MGS4 quality game for a damn iPad. Maybe something MW2 quality AT BEST. And that game is unimaginably light on VRAM.

30% higher res doesn't account for 400% higher frame rate on the iPad in some tests.

Oh my...you've changed man. You're not the man I knew years ago.

Piss poor RAM? You don't need more than 512MB of VRAM when you're playing a game under 1680 x 1050 resolution.

Uh yeah? I've played dozens of FPS games, racing games, etc. on my iPod touch and they control wonderfully. Go play Modern Combat 2 or NOVA 2 and come back telling me the controls suck.

The iPad has tabbed browsing. Also AnandTech disabled Flash in their tests.

Also look what happened to the iPad 2 when you turned on FSAA. The FPS was practically the same while the Xoom tanked. This says the iPad 2 has a lot more memory bandwidth than the Xoom (Tegra 2 uses LP DDR2 single channel 533 MHZ, A5 presumable uses dual channel LPDDR2-800 MHz)...so even if you increased the res on…

30% higher? Ok...increase all the Xoom frame rates by 30%. iPad still has huge lead. For example in the one shown:

Yeah I'd say they are fairly equal devices. In web browsing tests on AnandTech the iPad beat out the Xoom every single time. So the iPad 2 is the speed/performance/gaming monster while the Xoom is the spec and feature packed tablet.

A few months ago there was an article on TouchArcade saying Crytek was hiring devs for iOS development. Crysis 2 for A5 devices? (I always have my GTX 460 powered gaming rig to turn to...) but wouldn't mind some Maximum Armor on my iOS device.

Yeah in one test the iPad's score was 10X higher than the iPad 1 and 8X higher than the Xoom.

Hahaha! Yes they are! Crytek hired devs for iOS development a few months ago. We'll play Crysis on our iPads...and you people can go play...oh wait no decent games n the Android market.

512MB dual channel LPDDR2-800 MHz bro.

Ok? Add 30% to all the Xoom's frame rates. Still nowhere close.

You're asking for something 2048 x 1536 or more. Not only would this rape the benchmarks, but is expensive to manufacture.

iOS's damn 60 FPS cap. If that wasn't there I suppose these graphs would be even more in the A5's favor.