iPad Multi-core vs Single-core on iPad

[wetrollerskate]

If using the iPad for primarily music production and everyday tasks like browsing and streaming, would single-core performance be an advantage over multi-core?

The iPad Air 4 has a single core of 1583 and iPad Pro 2020 at 1119. Realistically speaking, would this increase make any difference for these uses?

 

[AutomaticApple]

would this increase make any difference for these uses?

In normal usage, the difference isn't all that noticable unless you purposefully look for it.

 

[Moyapilot]

I think we will have to wait for actual side by side tests once the Air4 is released to be sure of the differences.

My guess is that doing simple tasks might seem a tad faster on the Air. Doing more complex things (not that that the ipad has too many such scenarios) will be in favor of the Pro (again just slightly).

Overall, I think you won't really notice a difference until IpadOS 14 or 15 at the earliest. These ipad chips are already too far ahead of the software. Its basically baby food to them since the A11 and A12. I really wish Apple would speed up the progress of the OS and unleash the ipad, and then we'd actually have a reason to upgrade.

 

[Digitalguy]

As I said elsewhere
" A14 is 6 cores (2 performance + 4 efficiency) vs A12X/Z 8 core (4 performance + 4 efficiency), with the 2 performance cores being each over 40% faster, and the total 6 cores getting to 90% of the A12X/Z total performance (but 90% only when all core are being used such as in some video editing apps and heavy multitasking, most of the time A14 will be over 100%, that is faster that A12X when the system will not (be able to) make use of all the cores)."

Probably in most cases the difference will be minor, but most of the time in favor of A14...

 

[wetrollerskate]

I think we will have to wait for actual side by side tests once the Air4 is released to be sure of the differences.

My guess is that doing simple tasks might seem a tad faster on the Air. Doing more complex things (not that that the ipad has too many such scenarios) will be in favor of the Pro (again just slightly).

Overall, I think you won't really notice a difference until IpadOS 14 or 15 at the earliest. These ipad chips are already too far ahead of the software. Its basically baby food to them since the A11 and A12. I really wish Apple would speed up the progress of the OS and unleash the ipad, and then we'd actually have a reason to upgrade.

Thats true.

Lets say in around two years time we compare the processing speed of A12Z/A14 on the new OS. Would A12Z be much slower than A14 in that regard or would you say that the differences will still be marginal then?

 

[Moyapilot]

Thats true.

Lets say in around two years time we compare the processing speed of A12Z/A14 on the new OS. Would A12Z be much slower than A14 in that regard or would you say that the differences will still be marginal then?

No, it will be marginal. The a12x/a12z are supercharged already. They have a stronger GPU as well, but again, will have to wait for real world comparisons.

Basically, consider the Air14 and Pros to be on equal footing silicon wise. I would base your purchasing decision on other factors instead.

 

[onfire23]

No, it will be marginal. The a12x/a12z are supercharged already. They have a stronger GPU as well, but again, will have to wait for real world comparisons.

Basically, consider the Air14 and Pros to be on equal footing silicon wise. I would base your purchasing decision on other factors instead.

Ipad air 4 tops the Geekbench compute GPU benchmark charts. It is 9 % faster than A12z in metal workloads. It should also be much more efficient and should have a better battery life. According to notebookcheck, pro 2020 pulls 19 watts under full load. This value is higher than the pro 2018.

Ipad air 4 scores 12500+ points compared to 11500+ points on the pro 2020. It also uses Lpddr5 ram versus Lpddr4 on the ipad pro. A14 infact has a higher transistor count than A12z.

 

[Moyapilot]

Ipad air 4 tops the Geekbench compute GPU benchmark charts. It is 9 % faster than A12z in metal workloads. It should also be much more efficient and should have a better battery life. According to notebookcheck, pro 2020 pulls 19 watts under full load. This value is higher than the pro 2018.

Ipad air 4 scores 12500+ points compared to 11500+ points on the pro 2020. It also uses Lpddr5 ram versus Lpddr4 on the ipad pro. A14 infact has a higher transistor count than A12z.

Hmm, interesting. I’ll have to see the full report once they are published in reviews. The GPU should still be faster theoretically on the 12z. But synthetic benchmarks say otherwise as you said. 9% is not much though to make any real difference, and ’metal’ is not the most accurate test for a GPU.