New M4-powered iPad Pro (2024) blows its M2-based predecessor out of the water

09 May 2024
The new iPad Air (2024) models use that same M2 chip (the previous Air had the M1).

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What, 10 May 2024M3 already perfroms better than rumored 8g4 scores, and m3 ... moreSadly a18 can't dream of getting near to sd8gen4. Let not talk about gpu gap. A18 can't even beat older sd8gen3.

    Jon, 13 May 2024Considering the M1 iPads are faster than a Intel i9 chip...... moreWhich i9 chip and in what? Surely talking about 5th gen. This dumb soc can't run aaa titles at 30% potential. Let alone running all hardware acceleration based workflow

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      • Jon
      • Ab@
      • 13 May 2024

      Considering the M1 iPads are faster than a Intel i9 chip....... I could care less how over powered the M4 is.......i’m more curious if iPads will loose a year of updates cuz Apple skipped the M3 variant.....

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        • AnonF-1006353
        • JBi
        • 11 May 2024

        Vegetaholic, 11 May 2024Both chips M2 and M4 are pure monsters rivaling top Intel a... moreIt's nowhere on par. Not even in their older geekbench 5 and it definitely won't be in real world applications and other benchmarks like cinebench or passmark. Let's wait for these first, instead of promoting blind false marketing beliefs. But it's the same thing everytime they dump a new cpu on the market.

          Both chips M2 and M4 are pure monsters rivaling top Intel and AMD desktop CPU one or few generation back. M4 actually somewhere on par with AMD 2020 top desktop flagship CPU Ryzen 9 5950x, which at 2020 was considered as best consumer CPU on the planet with insane performance numbers, destroying Intel to pieces, 16 core beast sucking like north of 250w on full power 🤣 now you have something like this on 5.1mm thick tablet just not even 4 years later 😱😱😱 Apple Arm magic indeed

            AnonF-1006353, 11 May 2024There are faster windows/linux machines than the fastest m ... moreThere is not a single more efficient machiine than M series powered machines. Period. Just battery life itself is a massive indicator that no one can match. Stop being a fanboy. Or shall I say hater.

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              • Goatjo
              • 7kk
              • 11 May 2024

              Increasing the single core performance takes the most R&D and apple is so ahead in it like 3 generations ahead, it's insane!

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                • JBi
                • 11 May 2024

                SShock, 09 May 2024No it hasn't. It's not even remotely close to Mac... moreThere are faster windows/linux machines than the fastest m powered macs. Specially if you don't limit your perspective by biased fruit fanbase built geekbench. Just check passmark. Now go home.

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                  • GamingBrudda
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                  • 10 May 2024

                  SShock, 10 May 2024How can you talk about efficiency if OS does bunch of emula... moreMeant to say that to someone else named JFC or something instead of you, just a skill issue on my side

                  But having better efficiency compared to older chipset is a good thing either way. Apple’s emulation was quite impressive back in the m1 days, where many apps didn’t natively support apple’s new chip even when running on battery. They’re also trying to have as many apps support them natively instead of relying on emulation so there’s that too. I hope we get similar results with upcoming arm chipsets for windows but that’ll also depend on Microsoft alongside with oems making such chipsets.

                    GamingBrudda, 09 May 2024Once again, I was talking about the benefit of EFFICIENCY t... moreHow can you talk about efficiency if OS does bunch of emulation and translation of software? That's NOT efficient.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • nDy
                      • 10 May 2024

                      at that scores, it is the nr1 consumer Single core SoC

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                        • KariAyam
                        • C@V
                        • 10 May 2024

                        Lol, 10 May 2024most important is the Productivity, being large i hope it... moreyou mean MacOS

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                          • C@V
                          • 10 May 2024

                          most important is the Productivity,
                          being large i hope it should get iPadOS.

                          no productivity = no efficiency.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 70d
                            • 10 May 2024

                            Nick Tegrataker, 10 May 2024I'll be definitely looking forward to seeing what M4/M... moreThe latest iPad Air should run macOS as well. Maybe if the iPad sales keep declining, Apple will consider making the next iPad Air and iPad Pro models run macOS.

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                              • 10 May 2024

                              Dr Mujeeb, 09 May 2024This jump was needed for them. Bcz snapdragon 8 gen 4 is sc... moreM3 already perfroms better than rumored 8g4 scores, and m3 is only entry level.

                              M series isnt as much efficiency oriented as a series, why would they care if 8g4 is more efficient? They would just make a18 to match it.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • xjH
                                • 10 May 2024

                                Always the dumb comparison apple makes.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • vaS
                                  • 10 May 2024

                                  GamingBrudda, 09 May 2024I also don’t get why people dismiss such improvements and s... moreCompared to a chip 2 generations older just to put up a facade of "huge improvement".

                                    Nick Tegrataker, 10 May 2024"Windows on ARMS will fly this time because there are ... moreTheoritically yes, the first gen will not be good but maybe changed rapidly in 3 years if the market receptions are good. I would like to see my phone powered by full fledge windows at least 5 years from now.

                                      Dr Mujeeb, 09 May 2024This jump was needed for them. Bcz snapdragon 8 gen 4 is sc... moreWell, to put it more specifically, Apple is afraid of the Oryon core, because that was designed by ex Apple Silicon team who was bought by Qualcomm. X Elite and 8gen4 will be utilizing this new Oryon core. Meanwhile, Apple themselves is falling behind in GPU, being beaten by the SD8gen2 already.

                                      Tim Cook is quitting in a year or two.

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                                        • Goatjo
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                                        • 10 May 2024

                                        Increasing the single core performance takes the most R&D and apple is so ahead in it like 3 generations ahead, it's insane!