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Hi there

What‘s the A12X GPU in the iPad Pro 12‚9’‘ closest to compare to from Nvidia and AMD?

I‘ve been doing some design, video editing with various apps and also 3D with shapr app. And not once did the temperature rise of the iPad. No matter what I throw at it it‘s always super snappy and cool. If I did the same on my previous 2018 MacBook Pro it would kick off fans and get a bit hot.

So I‘m wondering is the only thing keeping the iPad Pro away from bigger tasks that the developers haven‘t caught up yet? So far there‘s Affinity, Lumafusion Video and Shapr3D that come to mind which can show iPad Pro‘s true potential.

I hope there will be more and maybe even Adobe and Autodesk porting more of their pro apps to iPadOS.
 
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The A12x GPU achieves scores in Geekbench Test Results of 42,462 for the iPad Pro 12.9” 3rd gen, and 42,592 for the iPad Pro 11”. To put that into perspective, with OpenCL, the Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU that’s integrated into a lot of high performance laptop and desktop Intel CPUs achieves 22,744, while the NVIDIA GeForce MX150, found as a discrete GPU in a lot of high-end ultrabooks, achieves 43,774.
 
The A12x GPU achieves scores in Geekbench Test Results of 42,462 for the iPad Pro 12.9” 3rd gen, and 42,592 for the iPad Pro 11”. To put that into perspective, with OpenCL, the Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU that’s integrated into a lot of high performance laptop and desktop Intel CPUs achieves 22,744, while the NVIDIA GeForce MX150, found as a discrete GPU in a lot of high-end ultrabooks, achieves 43,774.

So we need Maya and After Effects on the iPad Pro, damn it :) and triple-A games.
 
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The A12x GPU achieves scores in Geekbench Test Results of 42,462 for the iPad Pro 12.9” 3rd gen, and 42,592 for the iPad Pro 11”. To put that into perspective, with OpenCL, the Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU that’s integrated into a lot of high performance laptop and desktop Intel CPUs achieves 22,744, while the NVIDIA GeForce MX150, found as a discrete GPU in a lot of high-end ultrabooks, achieves 43,774.

What are the caveats of this situation though? If I say this to gamer-PC-self-build friends, they'll laugh me out of the room saying how the iPad can't possibly have that power and how 'performance test scores mean nothing in reality'
 
What are the caveats of this situation though? If I say this to gamer-PC-self-build friends, they'll laugh me out of the room saying how the iPad can't possibly have that power and how 'performance test scores mean nothing in reality'

I said this before. The iPadPro with iPadOS is so fluid it feels like a 32GB Ram machine ore higher. Never had I a beachball moment like on the Mac (even very fast ones).

Really amazed about the battery life too. It's really so efficient that I can understand why Apple will switch to it's own ARM Cpu's for Macs.

Would be amazing to see a 14-15'' inch version of the iPad Pro and more pro apps and AAA games coming.
 
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What are the caveats of this situation though? If I say this to gamer-PC-self-build friends, they'll laugh me out of the room saying how the iPad can't possibly have that power and how 'performance test scores mean nothing in reality'

I wish I could answer you someway on that. But I do not have an explanation.
 
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