3DMark Arrives on iOS to Benchmark iPhones, iPads

By Marcus Yam
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Now you can benchmark your iPhone against everyone else's phones!

Just in time for the new Apple products of the season is the release of 3DMark for iOS.

3DMark for mobile debuted in April for Android and included two benchmarks, Ice Storm and Ice Storm Extreme, both based on OpenGL ES 2.0. Ice Storm includes two graphics tests designed to stress the GPU’s performance and a physics test to stress the CPU’s performance.

Those interested in benchmarking their iOS devices can grab the free download from iTunes (opens in new tab). The download size is 174MB and requires iOS 6.

Check out the leaderboard for mobile devices here. Will there be iOS devices populating the top of this list soon?

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Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
10 Comments Comment from the forums
  • jaber2
    Yes, finally I can see if my iPad can play high resolution games, Hello Candy Crush 64bit
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  • sa1nt
    I wonder if someday we can build our own phones and have enthusiast phone build every month here at toms.
    Reply
  • Alex Altu
    WTF? Are not all apple products of the same generation the same? What would be the point in comparing an iPhone 5 with an IPhone 5? You cannot over clock them or put in difrent components, so what is the point of this?
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  • vmem
    lol, this will finally demonstrate how Apple is making up for mediocre hardware with software optimizations

    I love how the Nexus 7 (2013) is faster than the iPad4 at less than half the price
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  • ohim
    @Alex Altu for numbers. Just like in CPU market when games usually run about the same on all top CPU be it Intel or AMD, Benchmarks like this give useless numbers(they don`t represent real world application since you won`t be doing your work in 3DMark, or your gaming in 3DMark)...so basicaly is only for the numbers. And 1% to fuel the war between Galaxy # vs IPhone # vs HTC # etc.
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  • g-unit1111
    11513191 said:
    I wonder if someday we can build our own phones and have enthusiast phone build every month here at toms.

    That would be bad ass! I would love to see Corsair, Antec, EVGA, and Cooler Master start making "enthusiast" performance phone cases. :lol:
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  • Cryio
    I'm just happy we finally have a proper, standardised, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, game benchmark.
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  • sundragon
    11513235 said:
    WTF? Are not all apple products of the same generation the same? What would be the point in comparing an iPhone 5 with an IPhone 5? You cannot over clock them or put in difrent components, so what is the point of this?

    Um... Not sure what rock you guys are living on but it allows people to benchmark the graphics using the same benchmark across Android and iOS.

    11513240 said:
    lol, this will finally demonstrate how Apple is making up for mediocre hardware with software optimizations

    I love how the Nexus 7 (2013) is faster than the iPad4 at less than half the price

    I wonder if this is like the political tactic Republicans used during the Iraq war, if we say something BS enough times people will believe us - example: IRAQ has WMDs and Chemical Weapons...

    Apple's iPad4 has a GPU that eats my Nexus 7 2013 for lunch. There is no tablet currently out that exceeds that performance and the iPad 5 is about to launch with even more GPU power in a month or two.

    Apple has consistently put the best GPUs in their devices and rocks the benchmarks. The fact that you're even making that comment makes me wonder if you even know that the Adreno 320 in my Nexus 7 hits about 2/3 the performance of an iPad 4. It also costs less but I'm not sure where you're coming up with:

    "I love how the Nexus 7 (2013) is faster than the iPad4 at less than half the price"

    Just look at this benchmark from Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7231/the-nexus-7-2013-review/3

    Our CPU is faster but this article is about graphics benchmarks and while it's close, it's also running a screen 1920-by-1200 vs 2048-by-1536

    While I would kick you if you tried to take my Nexus 7, I'm also living in reality, bang for buck it's fast but it's not as fast GPU wise and when the iPad 5 comes, that margin will grow.

    P.S. if they are making the UI work so smoothly with inferior hardware then KUDOS to them for being programming geniuses, I wish someone would do that on the Android side, my 2012 Nexus 7 was a laggy b*tch from day one.
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  • Spooderman
    My nexus 7 does really well in these tests, and it actually beat the iPad 4.
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  • sundragon
    11544073 said:
    My nexus 7 does really well in these tests, and it actually beat the iPad 4.

    Beat the iPad 4 on CPU benchmarks, no Sh*t it's faster!

    ...but not on the GPU, which is the point of this article: Cross platform GPU benchmark.

    Basemark and GL Bench (graphics benchmarks) the iPad beats the N7, which graphics benchmarks did it win?

    Now that we have 3DMark you can test and post the results, then we can compare apples to apples (the purpose of the article).
    Reply