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iPad Pro Is the 2020 iPad Pro really ‘faster than most laptops” like Apple claims?
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Well it was true in 2018...
www.tomsguide.com
Pretty sure it still holds true today.
New iPad Pro Benchmarked: This Blows Away Windows PCs
The A12X Bionic chip inside the new 2018 iPad Pro outperforms even Core i7-powered laptops.
Pretty sure it still holds true today.
Ok thanks for the information !Well it was true in 2018...
New iPad Pro Benchmarked: This Blows Away Windows PCs
The A12X Bionic chip inside the new 2018 iPad Pro outperforms even Core i7-powered laptops.
Pretty sure it still holds true today.
just thinking if these updated models still are still behind the IPP 2020
Yes, it is pretty much on par with a 2018 MacBook Pro.
they benchmarked the new iPad Pro against the MacBook Air and the new MacBook Pro and iPad came out on top. All we need is the pro app to utilize all this sexy new power! WWDC is rumored to Premier Final Cut X, logic and even Xcode. Things will get interesting for iPad in the next couple years
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/12/ipad-pro-vs-macbook-air-vs-macbook-pro/
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/12/ipad-pro-vs-macbook-air-vs-macbook-pro/
if the A14 chip specs are true, I can't fathom the A14X.
Are you asking about results in benchmarks or real use case usage? In terms of benchmarks yes. In terms of real usage I have not seen any meaningful data. I mean if you ask if the iPP's CPUs are capable of doing a lot - yes they are. If you are asking because you expect once you receive the answer Yes to expect to see better performance (and faster) in terms of day to day work then the answer is it depends. It depends on what you do with an iPP. If it just browsing you won't see a difference. Same if we are talking about watching movies or youtube stream, word processing, chats, facetime etc.
You might see better performance in terms of photos processing and video processing. And it still depends on your use case. For example I do batch proessing of RAW files. 50 photos take a minute. I use software that has specific profile for my camera and my lens so processing is improved consideirng my setup. So most probably technically the iPP's CPU can do better but do I have the app to do batch processing for my camera setup? I kind of doubt it.
Or say video processing. Sure it does it faster but I cannot do it in the background. I have to wait for the app to finish before doing something. In comparison on my laptop is slower but I can do lots of other stuff while waiting.
So yes it is faster but I honestly would not care about this currently as it does not bring my anything as an end user. IMO people pay too much attention on this. Way more than it is needed considering iPadOS state and the apps we can install on an iPad.
sure - but what for? I’m sorry to say (I own the 2020 iPad Pro) but it’s still just a supersized iPhone. There’s no a single app in the App Store that actually makes use of all that power for anything useful.
They really haven’t
They haven’t turned the iPad into a comparable laptop replacement until iPadOS was marketed
Pro apps are coming soon that much seems obvious. In the next 2-5 years I can see apple giving more people less reasons to buy a laptop
I am not sure how the iPad would behave with Pro level apps, where sustained performance is required. Also remember that the iPad doesn't have lots of RAM, like Macs & PCs can have. Benchmarks are one thing, but real life is another. The iPad is of course very fast but its apps are mainly mobile only and are mostly lightweight. I would like to see the iPad's CPU in a Macbook running macOS. It would then be interesting to see how its performance really is..
They've been marketing it as such since 2015.
Tim Cook on iPad Pro: ‘Why would you buy a PC anymore?’
Apple's CEO has high hopes for the new 12.9-inch tablet, even if it cannibalizes existing iPads and MacBooks.
www.macworld.com
plus iPadOS really is no different from iOS so far. Hopefully that changes this year
Don’t talk nonsense. There are plenty of pro level apps that are able to make use of the iPad Pro’s power in the AppStore.
lumafusion, procreate, concepts, affinity photo, affinity design, lightroom, darkroom, pixelmator, sharpr 3D, photoshop etc etc etc
All very pro, all very powerful, and all make use of the iPads unique functionality over any other platform. I make my living off of several of them.
Just because you don’t use them, or know how to use them, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Download lumafusion, have a play around, and then come back and tell me the same thing.
It’s quite incredible what you can do on ‘a supersized iPhone’
Sorry but this is nonsense.
I use the iPad for music production and using Audiobus I routinely multitask multiple virtual instruments, effects and DAW. If I am not careful I can easily max out the iPad (2018 pro 11”).
Just because you don’t know something it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exists.
EDIT: I just realised how similar my post is to the one above. I rest my case.
You literally wasted your money buying the 2020 iPad Pro if you used it as a supersized iPhone. For that kind of use, you could have bought the budget 10.2” iPad. The iPad Pro for its display quality and silicon is for using professional apps that you don't seem to know about, like LumaFusion, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Photoshop, Procreate, etc.
Was waiting for this comment. I mean wtf do people think people do with an iPad Pro? Play angry birds all day? That other guys comment was the literal definition of projection. “Well I don’t do anything useful on an iPad therefore nobody does and iPad sucks”
Not sure about wasted money . . . Judge if you wish but what we each value varies. I can't speak for @malkovich87 but for myself 95% of the time I don't push my iPP to anywhere near its peak performance, and I don't feel I wasted my money at all. I could afford the nicer model, I liked the display, slightly higher specs and speakers, so I bought it. Most of the time all i do is web browse and watch streaming content or occasionally take notes on it or check email.
Agree with @secretk - benchmark performance is one thing - real world performance is completely another. Whether or not an iPad Pro is faster for an individual in general can sometimes say just as much about their workflow as it does the capability of the device.
To be fair some people do like the pro motion for playing games
.Now in all seriousness I am curious have you guys tested your workflows between iPad and powerful i9 laptop (Windows or Macbook)? I am talking about examples like that:
1. Using photoshop on the iPad and the PC for the same sort of job
2. Using Lumafusion for video processing on an iPad and then process the same video on laptop with Adobe Premiere/Final Cut Pro?
3. Using Affinity on an iPad and Windows for the same job?
I would love to see that kind of tests data. I am not saying that you should. I am asking if anyone has done that because benchmarks for me are just hype. Real test data is important here.
I am not saying that you don't use your iPPs professionally or that they don't satisfy your needs but the OP is asking a question - is an iPad faster than most laptops. And for me only with tests like the mentioned above we can answer this question.
In this article they compared the export time between the 2020 MacBooks and the 2020 iPad Pro
Comparing the 13-Inch MacBook Pro to the MacBook Air and iPad Pro
In the last two months, Apple has refreshed the 13-inch MacBook Air, the 13-inch MacBook Pro, and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, all of which have...
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Yes.
For example my iPad Pro from 2017 (10.5") is competitive with NO fan noise (due to no fan) vs. my i7 MBA 2020.
Running swift playgrounds or games, it isn't even close.
In this article they compared the export time between the 2020 MacBooks and the 2020 iPad Pro
Comparing the 13-Inch MacBook Pro to the MacBook Air and iPad Pro
In the last two months, Apple has refreshed the 13-inch MacBook Air, the 13-inch MacBook Pro, and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, all of which have...
Thanks but they tested it with i5 1.4 GHz. This is biased comparison. This is definitely not Intel's best CPU.
I am saying this because my laptop is of the same price as the iPP 512 GB model (11 inch), less storage if it is 12.9 inch. Now my laptop is with i7 CPU 2.8 GHz, 1 TB HDD, 512 GB SSD, expandable RAM from 8 GB to 32 GB. Only thing is the laptop is bought 2 and half years ago. So for me this is real life comparison. If the most powerful A chip cannot beat base Intel chip than we are in serious trouble.
I guess those are the Macbooks of similar price as the iPP but there are Windows laptops with far more powerful CPUs for the price of the iPP and this is where I am interested in comparison too because sometimes speed depends on the OS too. I know that Premiere used to be really slow on MacOS but quite fast on Windows.
I am interested in test against i9 2.7 GHz at least. I mean test the most powerful A chip with the most powerful Intel chip. Nevertheless thanks for the article. It is still better than just benchmarks.
Why would it not be true? iPad is a much simpler and streamlined device. It doesn't have the baggage of a PC's tens of thousand of extensions and drivers to deal with things like printers hardware and ports some dating back from the 1990s.
My iPad Pro 2018 feels more snappier than the 2017 MBP with 16gb of ram that I’ve had. But that said the iPad can’t run content creation apps like Adobe stuff so it’s hard to compare. But for other stuff like daily media consumption and web it’s much more fluid and battery better too.
I’m sure in the next years when more pro apps come to the iPad Pro the ARM CPU will show even more how powerful it is.
I’m sure in the next years when more pro apps come to the iPad Pro the ARM CPU will show even more how powerful it is.