Amazon 7-inch Fire Tablet Review: Here's What $50 Delivers

The 7-inch Fire tablet isn’t designed for hard-core gaming, but it should be able to handle basic games just fine. Let’s see how this tablet compares to others in some of our standard gaming benchmarks.

Graphics testing
iOS and Android Graphics testing

gfxbench trex

gfxbench fill

In both GFX Bench tests, the 7-inch Fire tablet manages to outscore the Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 8 and come in not too far behind last year’s Fire HD 7. Keep in mind the offscreen test renders the benchmarks at a full HD 1080p resolution, which the 7-inch Fire tablet will never attempt since its screen resolution is limited to 1024x600.

3dmark 1

3dmark 2

The 7-inch Fire tablet managed to surpass a couple of our comparison tablets in this benchmark, but still finds itself near the bottom of both charts.

We didn’t expect the 7-inch Fire tablet to be a chart-topper in our gaming benchmarks. It’s a bit unrealistic to expect smooth performance when attempting to play demanding titles on a $50 tablet, but this tablet will have no problem with casual titles such as Angry Birds or Candy Crush.


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Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer grew up around technology. From an early age, she was curious about all things related to computers. As a child, Jennifer remembers spending nights with her dad programming in BASIC and taking apart hard drives to see what was inside. In high school, she wrote her senior term paper on her experiences with building custom computers.

Jennifer graduated from the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. After college, she began writing full-time for various PC and technology magazines. Later, she transitioned to the Web. In these roles, Jennifer has covered a variety of topics including laptops, desktops, smartphones, cameras, tablets, and various consumer electronics devices. When she's not playing with or writing about the latest gadget, Jennifer loves to spend time with her family, capture memories with her camera, and scrapbook.

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