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Benchmark reveals that the Echo Show is Amazon’s most powerful device

Ever since Amazon discontinued their Fire HDX line of premium tablets and began focusing on more affordable tablets, the Amazon Fire TV has been the most powerful device they produce. That’s not surprising since it’s the closest thing they have to a game console, so it needs the horsepower to run demanding games. What is surprising is that, according to an internal benchmark, the Fire TV has been dethroned as the most powerful Amazon device by the Echo Show.

Benchmark results for the Echo Show have surfaced on GFXBench, a graphics benchmarking utility commonly used to test the gaming capabilities of phones and tablets. The test results aren’t explicitly labeled as being that of the Echo Show, but the hardware specifications listed for the “Amazon AEOKN” device match the Echo Show perfectly.

Benchmarks aren’t necessarily a good indicator of a device’s real-world performance, but these scores do show that Amazon has packed their flagship Alexa device with components that seem to be overkill for what the Echo Show can do today. Amazon could have big plans for the Echo Show that would necessitate the horsepower they’ve packed in, or perhaps they just want it to be ready for whatever direction 3rd-party developers take it.