The development of new chips that deliver zippier performance, smoother gaming, faster Web surfing, and longer-lasting battery life will soon make their way into new Android tablets. While the chips themselves -- and the high-end tablets that will house them -- have yet to be released,we have it on good authority that they'll deliver on their promise.

Gaming is an increasingly popular way tablet owners are spending time with their devices, and chip makers are paying attention. The gaming experience on Android tablets has improved in just the last year, and it's bound to only get faster, smoother, and prettier (and hopefully even more fun).

As of yet, however, the new chips don't have confirmed release dates, but if you're looking for an Android tablet that can deliver impressive graphics now, we've got you covered.

We've listed each tablet with as much pertinent-to-gaming-performance information as we could think of and have listed them here in order, from weakest to strongest based on benchmark scores derived from 3DMark.

3DMark runs a canned demo of a simulated sci-fi game called Ice Storm. The 3DMark scores are determined by three tests: two focusing on GPU speed and another on CPU performance. The tests were run on each tablet a few times, and the chart below represents the highest score for each tablet, with higher scores indicating faster performance.

Sony Xperia Tablet S
The Sony Xperia Tablet S's Tegra 3 chip delivers gaming performance near the top of the heap, but a few show-stopping software and hardware bugs prevent it from being a truly great tablet.

Asus Transformer Infinity Pad TF700
The Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 is one of our favorite Android tablets thanks to its sharp screen, thin and light design, and impressive gaming performance. Tegra 3 is beginning to show its age when dealing with the high 1,920x1,200-pixel resolution, but it's still fast enough to place at No. 2 on our list. 

Google Nexus 10
The Google Nexus 10 had a good run, but like all of us, must eventually make way for progress. It's still one of the fastest Android tablets we've ever tested and the Samsung Exynos 5250 with its Cortex A-15 System-on-Chip with a Mali T-604 GPU, will run your games as well as any other tablet. Well, save one. Overall, the tablet is great for all uses, but for gaming, it's one of the best Android tablets out there.

Sony Xperia Tablet Z
The Sony Xperia Tablet Z houses a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro with an Adreno 320 GPU. It's an impressive tablet, but my spies have ascertained evidence that neither it nor the current fastest gaming tablet (see below) will be all that impressive for much longer. 

Google Nexus 7 (2013)
The new Nexus 7 easily wins the Android gaming crown. Not only does it deliver high framerates in games, but its 1,920x1,200 resolution screen provides one of the highest pixel densities of any tablet thus far. That means all games -- 2D and 3D -- look stellar on it.