The iPad Pro officially went on sale today, both online and in some retail stores, and as such even more information is beginning to find its way out into the wild thanks to hands-on time and published reviews.
As an iPad with a “Pro” label attached to it, performance is a huge factor in many potential buyers’ consideration, as well it should be. Apple, for its part, says the A9X processor under the hood is ridiculously powerful, so people obviously wanted to test it out. Thanks to the folks at Ars Technica, we have a look at how the new iPad Pro performs.
First, the stats. According to the benchmarks, the A9X is a dual-core processor and it’s clocked somewhere around 2.25GHz. According to the score format in Geekbench, that puts the A9X at a single-core score of 3,233 and a multi-core score of 5,498. That means the iPad Pro not only outperforms recent iPhone models, but also outpaces the iPad Air 2.
But the iPad Pro also outperforms the 12-inch MacBook, the mobile-first single-port laptop that Apple launched earlier in 2015. The 12-inch MacBook is equipped with an Intel Core M processor, and it’s clocked between 1.1GHz and 1.2GHz, depending on the owner’s preference. When compared to the 2015 MacBook Air, or Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4, though, the iPad Pro falls just short of those devices.
The report also looked at GPU performance, though, and the iPad Pro stands out amongst the crowd. The large iPad was able to outperform a wide slate of devices based on GFXBench OpenGL testing, including the 2015 13-inch MacBook Air, the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, the 12-inch MacBook, the 2015 13-inch MacBook Pro, and even Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4. It also outperformed all other recent iPad models for good measure.
Basically, that means the iPad Pro has MacBook Air-level overall performance, while its GPU has performance levels that outpace the MacBook Pro. So, the future of multitasking on the iPad Pro looks promising, to say the least:
“We’re looking at MacBook Air-class CPU performance and MacBook Pro-class GPU performance, so the iPad Pro ought to be able to handle more multitasking features with aplomb as Apple sees fit to add them. Professional 3D apps like AutoCAD and the Complete Anatomy app Apple showed off in September all seem to run just fine, too.”
One other fun thing to consider is the Pencil, as noted by many different reviews, is weighted, which means it actually won’t roll away from you when it’s on a (flat) tabletop. However, as noted by Lauren Goode of The Verge in her review published on November 11, the Apple Pencil will also roll onto a specific side so that the “Pencil” logo on the metal band is always visible.
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