The results are in and gamers and musicians take heed: if you want a responsive tablet for data intensive gaming or music apps like Garage Band, then your best bet is the iPad. For everyone else, there's Android, but tablets running Google's open-source operating system aren't as finger-friendly as Microsoft's own Surface RT.
That's the word from mobile ad platform company Agawi, which is finding a second career as a benchmarking company. In September, Agawi unveiled its first benchmarking report that measured how long it took a smartphone to update its display after a touch interaction; Tuesday, the company released a detailed report ranking tablet touchscreen responsiveness, testing the iPad and iPad Mini, Nvidia's Shield, Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, and Microsoft's Surface RT.
iPad is the touch champ
Just like its smartphone tests, Apple's iOS took top honors in the tablet TouchMarks showdown. The iPad Mini measured the fastest average touch response time at 75 milliseconds, followed closely by the fourth-generation iPad at 81 milliseconds.
Agawi's TouchMarks results. (Click to enlarge.)
To add a little spice to its tablet match-up, Agawi added the Nvidia Shield to the mix. Even though the handheld gaming machine isn't a tablet, the device does have touch capabilities and comes packed with tablet-like specs, including a quad-core Tegra 4 processor, 2GB RAM, and 16GB onboard storage.
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