Performance Comparison of the New iPad Air vs. the iPad 4

iPad Air vs. iPad 4 Which one will be faster

One of Cupertino’s greatest strengths is the way they are able to get the most out of low and mid-range processors and RAM configuration.

With technical specifications that may seem somewhat outdated on other phones or tablets (at least on paper), Apple manages to get incredible performance when combined with iOS . One of its great qualities is the ability to unite hardware and software in a high level product.

In the previous video we can see the result of running the Geekbench 3 Benchmark test, on one of the new iPad Air and at the same time on an iPad 4 Who will win?

In these tests, the iPad Air achieved more than twice the performance of the previous generation iPad . The results in the test that tests a single core of the iPad Air exceed the multi-core test score of its predecessor.

The fourth-generation iPad scored 784 on a single core and 1429 on the multi-core test. The new iPad Air achieved a score of 1483 for a single core and 2696 in the multi-core test .

iPad Air scores twice as high in performance tests as iPad 4

This comparison is based on 3 fundamental blocks of evidence that we summarize very briefly. The block in charge of ” integer performance “, where values such as compression and decompression of several formats (jpeg, png, etc…) and the speed of working with SHA1, SHA2 algorithms, etc. are analyzed. On the other hand, the performance of operations with ” floating point “, such as filters or complex mathematical operations, is evaluated. Finally, the memory performance is analyzed, through scaling or copy speed, among other data.

If we think about it, a dual-core processor with 1 GB of RAM is not a chip that can stand out today (although it is the first processor for 64-bit mobile devices), but the optimization of the hardware features that the Apple operating system achieves raise the performance of the device in an impressive way . Achieving “make a fool of yourself” a tablet that seems to fly in the hands of its owners, the iPad 4.

Please note that any Apple tablet still works properly and is compatible with all apps on the App Store (except the first-generation iPad, which is no longer compatible with iOS 7). But now that you’ve seen AppAdvice’s performance tests of the new tablet hardware, do you think it’s worth switching to iPad Air?