The iPad product line has been interrupted for a year, which has made countless fruit fans scratch their ears and cheeks: Apple is holding back some big moves. The new iPad has been breaking the news for so long, and the main owner has finally appeared, on May 7, Apple officially released the iPad Pro and iPad Air two series. Air has added a large 13-inch screen option, and the price of the Pro series has skyrocketed. The real blockbuster is the M4 chip that debuted in the iPad Pro 2024. Uncharacteristically, the M4 was not first launched by the Mac, but by the iPad Pro.
So, how much of a performance improvement compared to the M2 of the previous generation iPad Pro? At present, the Geekbench database has exposed the single-core and multi-core performance scores of its CPUs.
Chip Performance: How Strong Are M4 Muscles?
As you can see, this model is codenamed J721AP, the device ID is iPad16,6, the system version recognized by Geekbench is iOS / iPadOS 17.5, the M4 chip frequency is up to 4408 MHz, and the single-core score is 3707/3767 points, and the multi-core score is 14523/14677 points.
In terms of specifications, the M4 chip is based on the second-generation 3nm process, integrating a total of 28 billion transistors, with a new display engine, equipped with up to 10 cores CPU, the official said that the CPU is up to 50% higher than M2, this time not to mention Apple squeezing toothpaste, this improvement is worthy of iPad for a year;
10-core GPU, 4x faster rendering performance than M2; In addition, it is also equipped with a 16-core neural network engine, with a computing speed of 38 trillion times/s, which is 60 times that of the A11 chip, and the official also said that the M4 chip only needs half the power consumption to provide the same performance as the M2.
Configuration differences: different storage, different chips
The new iPad Pro actually comes with a different M4 chip depending on the storage version:
- iPad Pro models with 256GB and 512GB of storage feature an M4 chip with a 9-core CPU and 8GB of RAM;
- iPad Pro models with 1TB and 2TB of storage feature an M4 chip with a 10-core CPU and 16GB of RAM.
- In addition, the 1TB and 2TB models are available with nano-textured display glass, while the 256GB and 512GB are also not available.
This also means that Macs with M4 will still retain the 8GB beggar version. However, 8GB Mac > 16GB PC, the arrangement of the fruit is very "reasonable".
Let's face it, many people will say that the iPad Pro has an excess of performance. Indeed, even the 2018 model is still smooth to use. However, we all know that performance is never an issue when it comes to iPads, the key is whether iPadOS can fully exploit the potential of the M4 chip.
Vocabulary analysis
- OLED display: A display technology that uses organic laser materials to provide higher contrast and lower energy consumption.
- 3nm process: a technology in chip manufacturing, refers to the size of the transistor, the smaller the 3nm, the stronger the performance of the chip, the lower the power consumption.
- Geekbench Benchmark Score: A test that measures the performance of a processor, offering both single-core and multi-core scores to compare the performance of different devices.
- WWDC: Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, where new operating systems and development tools are usually announced.
- iPadOS: Apple's operating system designed specifically for the iPad, sharing many features with iOS, but optimized for the iPad's large screen and multitasking.
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