Nexus 7 Galaxy Tab 7.7 Transformer Pad Infinity (max. perf.)

Vellamo

1,706

1,215

1,573

SunSpider 0.9.1 (ms, lower is better)

1,711

1,993

1,745

GLBenchmark Egypt Offscreen (fps)

63

47

75

CF-Bench

11,620

7,135

8,357

If we compare the Nexus 7 to a top-end Tegra 3 device like the 1.7GHz, 1920 x 1200 Transformer Pad Infinity (set to its 'Performance' mode) the pre-production Nexus 7 more than keeps up -- thanks in some part to its lower (1280 x 800) resolution. The SunSpider score for web-browsing speed is especially healthy and hammers home the point that this is in a different league to the Kindle Fire -- which scores a poor 2,440ms in this test. Meanwhile, only the GLBenchmark for GPU performance shows that the Nexus 7 may be slightly held back compared to Tegra 3 supremos.

Next, we can throw the Nexus 7 into the ring with a Galaxy Tab 7.7, which represents the family of Samsung devices powered by the last-gen dual-core Exynos processor (also including the Galaxy Note, for example). In this tussle, the Google slate wins by just the type of wide margin that we'd hope for given its quad-core 40nm silicon. In other words, when it comes to raw speed, the Nexus 7 looks like a proper 2012 Android device that can currently only be beaten by expensive flagships running off an Exynos Quad or a Snapdragon S4.