Graphics hardware in $25 Raspberry Pi Linux box outperforms iPhone 4S GPU

The board is built around the Broadcom BCM2835 chipset, which is designed to handle intensive multimedia. In a recent interview, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton claimed that the Broadcom graphics hardware in the Raspberry Pi offers twice the performance of the iPhone 4S GPU and soundly beats NVIDIA’s Tegra 2. Upton worked for Broadcom on the team that developed the hardware.