The new iPad browser benchmarks are here

The new iPad browser benchmarks are here

Lots of people are using the iPads just for web browsing so naturally the browser benchmarks matter a lot. We’ve put all the three iPads and the Transformer Prime through SunSpider and Browser Benchmark and the results are now out.

Long story short – the new iPad seems to offer the same browsing performance as the iPad 2.

Shocker? Don’t think so. Both the new iPad and the iPad 2 use same CPUs – the major player responsible for most of those scores. Surely the bigger screen offers a lot more viewing estate, but this is where the new GPU kicks in, so no game changer in the scores here either.

The new iPad 3 scores equal if not marginally lower results than the iPad 2 on both test. See for yourselves.

Browsermark scores

Higher is better

• Apple iPad 1
  67787
• Apple iPad 2
  103052
• Apple iPad 3
  100527
•      Asus Transformer Prime
  110978

Sunspider 0.9.1 scores

Lower is better

• Apple iPad 1
  2887 ms
• Apple iPad 2
  1788 ms
• Apple iPad 3
  1817 ms
•      Asus Transformer Prime
  2085.2 ms

We are already working on the new iPad review. You can expect more tests and benchmarks in there.