- Accelerate 179ms every time
- CoreImage 298ms first time 147ms subsequent times @1x scale
- CoreImage 262ms first time 126ms subsequent times @0.5x scale
- CoreImage 260ms first time 118ms subsequent times @0.25x scale
(Lower on 0.5x probably because of whole number for blur radius)
- Accelerate 141ms every time
- CoreImage 196ms first time 60ms subsequent times @0.5x
All tests done on an iPhone 5 running iOS [redacted] beta 3.