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iPad Pro 10.5 ipad pro has 2GB or 4GB ram?
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4gb ram confirmed.
http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/3036382?baseline=231758
http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/3036382?baseline=231758
Is it possible to know which is the new 12.9" and which is the 10.5"? I only see "7,4". Do we know which is which?
Well, I saw the Air 2 was the 5,4 and the first iPad Pro the 6,4. So it would make sense for the 10.5 to be called the 7,4 in Geekbench.
The 12.9 inch was called 6,8 in comparison.
Got ya. What would the 2nd generation iPad Pro 12.9 be, though? This old article (rumor) suggests there may be more values, with "7,1" the most commonly counted.
Mine used to but I solved it by double clicking the home button and closing out of old apps.
I thought the new iPads were code named 7,1, 7,2, 7,3 and 7,4 back when some leaks of possible new iPads was released.
Where did you see the new iPad Pro 12.9" was 6,8. Obviously it's no big deal, just trying to decipher Apple's odd numbering system.
Holy hell! The iMac in that comparison is my work iMac that I'm typing on right now, same CPU just more RAM. I use this thing every day to do my freaking job, which involves web design, web development, app design, occasional print design and photo editing. Is this real life? That number is insane!
It's all about usability. Editing excel or numbers spreadsheet is going to be much faster on the iMac as they are not really touch enabled for quick input on IPP. Viewing PDF and webpages though may be much the same and then of course Stylus input for annotation is only in iOS, for now. You choose what you want that works ...!
Yeah, I know I can still get more work done on my iMac. But that's still pretty crazy. iOS 11 is a good step forward, and hopefully Apple keeps it rolling as you can do some serious stuff with this type of performance. A-series chips are really catching up to Intel faster than Intel can innovate. It's crazy because the iPad is just a sliver compared to my big honking iMac.
Looking at the iMac score in that comparison, and the official listed score on Geekbench's site for my machine, it looks like whoever put this comparison together picked a lower score. The single core was about the same and the multi-core was about 3000 more. But that's under ideal conditions on a Mac. The iPad is usually under ideal conditions because it doesn't have so many background tasks and has a lighter OS overall.
The old (1st generation) iPad Pro 12.9" is 6,8 (Source). The new specific identifiers for the iPad Pro 10.5 and 2nd generation 12.9" are still currently up in the air. They will likely be 7,1 & 7,2 (WiFi/cell) for one of them and 7,3 & 7,4 (WiFi/cell) for the other. I have not seen any confirmation that the 10.5" (and not the new 12.9") is 7,4. These benchmarks could be for either of them.
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Looks like 4GB of RAM is really happening after all these benchmarks surfacing online in the last day. That's incredible, almost kind of drooling of all of the power going into this iPad Pro.
2017 has been an iPad year so far. Apple released the 2017 9.7 affordable iPad at $329.00 Superseded by a 10.5/12.9 iPad Pro with excellent specifications and built to last. A Different model that offers different capabilities for everyone.
Yeah I am blown away too! I was under the impression it was much lower, I think because of fake geekbench results that 'leaked' last year along with the % improvement Apple stated in the keynote. This is amazing, I think it's partly down to the additional high performance core.
At this level, I would like to see results of the A10X running under macOS, which will naturally be lower but I wonder how close it will be to at least the 5W MacBook processors.
This truly is amazing and unexpected. Along with the 4GB RAM on the 10.5", I am extremely happy with the upgrade over the 9.7". Especially with the moved down pricing structure.
I don't think i'm as worried of the A11 beating it as I was earlier, although I think, as has been the pattern before, the A11 may reach that level since it is technically an 'S' year.
The A11 will probably beat the single core score by a small margin but likely won't beat the multi-core, especially if it's only dual-core. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple starts distinguishing the iPad more based on multitasking capability through hardware and puts more focus on getting iOS to be multi-core optimized so that developers can use more power for parallel processing in their apps.
From what I understand that users around here saying, iOS doesn't give developers many tools for taking advantage of multiple cores. Perhaps they could give more access to apps that aren't in split view or slide over? But I also think there are tricks that developers can use to do it now. Someone who knows for sure care to chime in?
I am trying to see how much of an upgrade this is going to be compared to my current iPad 9.7 PRO
In the upcoming weeks, there will be plenty a side-by-side video comparisons and user reviews for that. But with the additional 4 GB of RAM over 2 GB of RAM on your 9.7 Pro, the 120 Hz refresh rate, upgraded camera, etc, expanded Apple Pencil support with 20 latency, I think there will be enough results here to show this should be a decent upgrade.