Amazon 7-inch Fire Tablet Review: Here's What $50 Delivers
Performance: Graphics & Gaming
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.
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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.
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.
