The development of new chips that deliver zippier performance, smoother gaming, faster Web surfing, and longer-lasting battery life will soon make their way into new Android tablets. While chips themselves and the high-end tablets that will house them, have yet to be released, we have it on good authority that they'll deliver on their promise.
Gaming is an increasingly popular way tablet owners are spending time with their devices and chip makers are paying attention. While the gaming experience on Android tablets has improved by leaps and bounds in just the last year, it's bound to only get faster, smoother, and prettier (and hopefully even more fun).
As of yet however, the new chips don't have confirmed release dates, but if you're looking for an Android tablet that can deliver impressive graphics now, we've got you covered. We gathered every high-performance tablet we could find in the CNET Labs and put them to the test. What lies below are our top seven.
We've listed each tablet with as much pertinent-to-gaming-performance information as we could think of and have listed them here in order, from weakest to strongest based on benchmark scores derived from 3DMark.
3DMark runs a canned demo of a simulated sci-fi game called Ice Storm. The 3DMark scores are determined by three tests: two focusing on GPU speed and another on CPU performance. The tests were run on each tablet a few times and the chart below represents the highest score for each tablet, with higher scores indicating faster performance.
Check here for more on the intricacies of 3DMark's scoring system.
| Tablet | 3DMark (Normal, 720p) | 3DMark (Extreme, 1080p) |
|---|---|---|
| Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 | 2767 | 2088 |
| Samsung Galaxy Note 8 | 3300 | 2519 |
| Nexus 7 | 3545 | 1889 |
| Kobo Arc | 3665 | 1897 |
| Sony Tablet S | 4084 | 2249 |
| Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 | 4298 | 2397 |
| Nexus 10 | 8055 | 5432 |
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sports a great looking screen and UI.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1's overall sensible design and great performance make it one of the best Samsung tablets to date. The scores represent overall gaming performance, and is heavily GPU-biased, so despite the Note 10.1's faster CPU, its underwhelming GPU performance lands it last on the list. Read the full review for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1.
| Device | CPU | GPU | RAM | OS tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 | 1.4GHz quad-core Exynos 4 Quad (4412) | Mali T400MP4 (quad-core) | 2GB | Android 4.1.2 |
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 features Watch On, Samsung's new universal remote/video hub app.
(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)As one of the smaller members of the Samsung Galaxy, the Note 8 has one of the best-looking screens on a small tablets. It shares a few similarities with the Note 10.1, including the S Pen and unimpressive GPU performance matched with a well performing CPU, but the Note 10.1's smaller counterpart edges out its competition with faster gaming scores. Read the full review for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
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