The examination of Apple’s iPad 2 continues, and now benchmarks of its graphics performance compare it favorably with both its predecessor and one of its most capable rivals, the Motorola Xoom.

Apple’s claim of the iPad 2′s nine-times-faster graphics performance over the iPad 1 might be exaggerated, according to AnandTech’s reviewer Daniel Dilger, who said he’s “not sure that you’ll ever see 9x running real game code.” In fact, AnandTech compared the iPad 2′s graphics performance with the original iPad and the Motorola Xoom, and using GLBenchmark 2.0, the iPad 2 was between 3 and 7 times faster than the iPad 1, and was a surprising 2 to 7 times faster than the Tegra 2-packing Motorola Xoom tablet.

All that trash talked by Xoom/Android fans, and the iPad 2 that's supposed to just be "pretty" blows it away in actual graphics performance. So hilarious.

OK, I’ll make a prediction. The most important way that the tablet is different from the computer is that it’s optimized for analog, not digital, input. Whatever the applications are that are best driven in an analog way, those are the ones that will drive the tablet ecosystem.

An interesting way of looking at the iPad situation.

Yep, the killer iPad app. So obvious.