Well, now, thanks to the M1 Chip, the iPad Pro, too, gets up to 16GB of RAM. Plus, the M1 Macs, with 8–16GB of unified (shared between the CPU and GPU) memory, show that Apple Silicon can, in fact, support this much RAM. At that time, most flagship Android phones, while they had slower processors than the iPad Pro, kind of made up with having 8–16GB of RAM, allowing for features like desktop modes, where you could have PC-like multitasking when you connect your phone to an external monitor. The 2020 iPad Pros were better with 6GB of RAM, but it still was not enough to handle most professional Mac apps comfortably. For example, the 2018 iPad Pro may be as powerful as some Core i5 laptops even in 2021, but only had 4GB of RAM on every model except for the 1TB model which had 6GB of RAM. RAM was always a limitation on iOS devices. It’s not just the processor that got a massive performance increase in the new iPad Pro. The fact that the M1 isn’t being throttled in Geekbench is good news and proves that the new iPad Pro is by far, fast enough to run macOS, but wait, there’s more. But, Geekbench scores have, in the past been pretty accurate on Apple devices, and on some devices, like the iPhone 12, Apple intentionally throttled the A14 Chip to be slower than the A14 Chip on the iPad Air as it had worse cooling due to the smaller size and lack of a vapor chamber. It is a shorter benchmark than most others, so the chip is less likely to overheat and throttle. This is much higher than people originally thought, and Apple’s conservative performance estimates, but it seems to make sense as the iPad Pro has the full 8-Core GPU. This is almost twice the score of the previous iPad Pro, around 12,000, and around 2000 points higher than the M1 MacBook Air with the 7-Core GPU, scoring around 19,000, and only around 1000 points lower than the M1 MacBook Pro with the 8-Core GPU, scoring around 22,000. On the Geekbench Metal Graphics Test, the iPad Pro scores as high as 21,600. But, wait until you see the M1 iPad Pro’s metal graphics score on Geekbench.
This is basically in the margin of error, and in real-world tasks, there would be no performance difference. The M1 MacBook Air scores around 1725 in Single-Core and 7500 in Multi-Core.
According to Geekbench, the M1 iPad Pro scores 1711 for Single-Core and 7359 for Multi-Core. After all, the iPad Pro way thinner and has no fan, so it needs to throttle to prevent overheating, right? Wrong. Just because the new iPad Pro has the M1 Chip doesn’t necessarily mean it is as powerful as the M1 Macs.
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