INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The iPad Pro 2020 boasts the souped-up A12Z Bionic chipset, though it turns out it's not much faster than the A12X Bionic chip at the
heart of the iPad Pro 11 (2018) and iPad Pro 12.9 (2018), according to early benchmarks.Specifically, the new iPad Pro is just 1% faster
than the year-and-a-half old models that it's replacing, as per a listing on the benchmarking website AnTuTu and first spotted by
MySmartPrice.There's some good news, though, if you dive deeper into the benchmarks
We learn the baseline iPad Pro 2020 with 512GB of storage gets 6GB of RAM (previously, Apple stuck 4GB of RAM in all but the top-of-the-line
1TB version of the 2018 iPad Pro 12.9 model, which got 6GB).We also see that the GPU speeds of the new iPad Pro are where Apple gives its
new tablet some laptop-like oomph
That's likely to be good for 3D gaming apps and, in time, more advanced AR functionality to come.Where the new iPad Pro 2020 excelsApple
GPU, enhanced thermal architecture and tuned performance controllers.Sure enough, Apple's A12Z chipset performs impressively in GPU tests:
it shows performance improvements of around 10% compared to the A12X 7-core GPU
74,998 points compared to the 95,118 score achieved by the 2018 iPad Pro
than the 2018 model in terms of GPU performance
But its CPU and RAM performance are mostly unchanged
You might not notice a difference day-to-day, and that's OK, because the iPad Pro line has always been fast enough.All of this should
hardly be surprising given the similar nomenclature of the two 'A12' chipsets
Given the small differences here in performance and the fact that the benefits of the new LiDAR-equipped cameras may not be fully realized
