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iPad Pro's M4 Chip Outperforms M3 by Up to 25%
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You’re right. I was thinking of upgrading my base M1 Pro 8/14 and to an M3 Pro or Max, but now I’ll def wait.
Apple was talking about Neural Engine with 38Trillion calculations per second. But QC Snapdragon X Elite claim that their chip can handle 45 Trillion operations per second! Apple did point out that they had Neural Engine since A11 Bionic but what's the point if they can't even get Siri to work properly?.
I think any conversation about iPadOS should be tabled until after WWDC.
Siri is not Apple AI. It’s like saying what’s the point of Nvidia when their chat bot app doesn’t work well.
Curious the score of the binned chip, the one with 3 performance cores.
You will be waiting for more WWDC. If you are expecting iPad OS to morph in to Mac OS, I doubt it will happen any time soon. It’s been going on for past 8-10 WWDC.
Geekbench 6 Metal Score : 53.792 vs M3 : 43.789 (+22%)
Already going against the grain of my previous statement lol. I am not expecting anything, but I never mind being pleasantly surprised.
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AMD isn’t. Look at their Zen processors. Granted, they don’t release a new one each year, however they get >10% IPC gains each time without fail. They are in fact due to repeat this with Zen 5 in Q3. I am not knocking Apple, the M series chips are incredible. I am just very curious what they plan to do next.
The M4 is only faster than your M3 Pro in single core. It’s still slower in multi-core. That happens in every generation as the improvements in the base cores is where the improvements are focused.
All those claims mean little without the context of exactly what they are measuring.
Uh, hate to break this to you…
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Man i can’t believe people fall for this minor changes and what’s unbelievable is that people find excuses to buy this products and probably people that lives with a tight budget… smh
I know it not the same. But I replaced my Windows laptop with an M1 Pro and use Windows via RDP to a desktop box. I used to carry two decives everywhere, but when they added mouse support to iPad OS I was finally able to make the leap and cut down to just my iPad on vacations, business trips, etc.
I would love to make the jump to the new M4 iPad, and in fact, I had fully planned to, but now I'm holding out to see what WWDC brings. I'm hopeful for a hybrid MacOS/iPad OS. I still use the Apple Pencil for markup, so I can't ditch the iPad completely and go MacBook, but I do long for better file management, windowing, etc.
If we could do MacOS emulation on this, it would solve all my issues and I would be upgrading as we speak.
Not sure where Apple will go next (unless losing a lot of silicon designers to Nuvia did hurt them a little) but this post is interesting
I'll skip the iPad Pro "limitations" comments as we've had enough of those...
It will be interesting to see what they deliver on the "AI" front next month though. They've packed a lot of power in the iPhone 15 and iPad Pro for this so it better be good.
It will be interesting to see what they deliver on the "AI" front next month though. They've packed a lot of power in the iPhone 15 and iPad Pro for this so it better be good.
While your comment is tongue in cheek, the criticism is true. But, my commentary to the criticism, though is that we've had a Desktop / Laptop replacement tablet for over a decade in the x86 MS Surface Pro tablets. More recently, SΛMSUNG DeX has been a thing for the better part of a decade. And neither have lit the world on fire, much less, amount to anything other then a rounding error.
Someone prove me wrong. I don't see Apple being the one "holding back" because Microsoft and Samsung have proven the concept to be nothing more then a niche.
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being slower than m4 does not make m3 obsolete
I feel exactly like you. Had I known Apple would release a new chip so soon after the M3, I would have waited. I feel cheated….
Interesting reading that ..... there have been a couple of tech content creators who have recently called out the various test components that make up a geekbench score. It's about how the number is derived and does the final "higher score" necessarily mean an improvement in specific areas that your workload would benefit from.
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I'm not arguing explicitly arguing against an iPad Pro being able to "dual boot" or whatever - But, if there was more then niche appeal - wouldn't the x86 MS Surface Pro tables running desktop Windows made in roads, dented iPad sales, or taken the world by storm?
I just bought an M3 Max, because it's here now, and I know what it can do now rather than speculate about what something might do at some point in the future.