The best benchmark for a piece of graphics hardware is your own actual application, not some marketing benchmark number claimed by some hardware vendor hyping their own hardware.
SceneReader is a new software technology designed to locate, analyse and report alphabetic text in a broad variety of photographic images, including highly complex images such as street scenes.
JVM startup time was included in these results. That means even with JVM startup time, Java is still faster than C++ in many of these tests. With some tweaks and lots of resources.