A12 Bionic in New iPad Paired With 3GB RAM, Clocks in at Same Speed as Latest iPhones

Cosmosent said:
Very specifically, it appears the Synthetic Benchmarks are NOT testing the switching capabilities of processors ... in AAPL's case, what they call the Performance Controller.
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I call BS. You sure it’s not the Samsung Exynos you’re thinking of? The 9810 had a known issue that Anandtech discovered that sounds eerily similar to what you’re talking about.
 
realtuner said:
I call BS. You sure it’s not the Samsung Exynos you’re thinking of? The 9810 had a known issue that Anandtech discovered that sounds eerily similar to what you’re talking about.
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I’m with you on this one. He literally cites the Exynos.

There have been no reports of scheduler problems with the A12 and Anandtech would be the first to report them.

The essence of fake news. I say give me the source or it never happened.
 
I was hoping for 4gb in this iPad Air. After all the iPad Air 2 came with 2gb ram almost 5 years ago, prices have dropped and its time for 4gb ram. Incidently, this iPad Air is more expensive than the iPad Air 2 was on release day.
 
Nice, the RAM I wanted.

Hopefully (in that I find out prior to the morning of store launch so I can prep my 2018 iPad for trade in) day one purchase of the Mini in store.

Any idea, what day? Wednesday, Friday?
 
a.gomez said:
So untalented people can run Mickey Ware and worthless Art Apps no studio actually use in their Work Flow
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Haha. Riiight. Nobody uses Procreate, Clip Studio, Affinity or ... Adobe suite?

Seanm87 said:
Why is everyone so obsessed with ram on this forum? Even Apple doesn’t advertise it
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In my case because the amount of RAM dictates how many layers you can use in some art apps. For many it might make sense to get a cut price older 10.5" Pro for the 4GB RAM. Or maybe not? The 2GB in the 9.7" iPad Pro I currently have is almost enough for me, so the jump to 3GB would likely suffice.
 
Seanm87 said:
Why is everyone so obsessed with ram on this forum? Even Apple doesn’t advertise it
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On a side note: A lot of members will chastise Apple, because Apple doesn’t use as much ram as other competitors do in their tablets, so they’re not necessarily obsessed with the ram, they’re obsessed with making snark comments at Apple. The reality is, average consumers don’t even know what ram does or how it contributes to the iPad performance.
 
Relentless Power said:
On a side note: A lot of members will chastise Apple, because Apple doesn’t use as much ram as other competitors do in their tablets, so they’re not necessarily obsessed with the ram, they’re obsessed with making snark comments at Apple. The reality is, average consumers don’t even know what ram does or how it contributes to the iPad performance.
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Nor do they give a crap.
 
srsub3 said:
I don't get why they are differentiating products with ram. It's stupid iMHO
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To have a reason to eventually drop iOS support for older devices, the way iOS 13 won't support 1gig devices. The 5s, 6, 6plus, touch6, and Mini2 are all going to be stuck on iOS 12, to finally force those people to stop using their perfectly good hardware and upgrade.
 
Aston441 said:
To have a reason to eventually drop iOS support for older devices, the way iOS 13 won't support 1gig devices. The 5s, 6, 6plus, touch6, and Mini2 are all going to be stuck on iOS 12, to finally force those people to stop using their perfectly good hardware and upgrade.
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They have to say top using perfectly good hardware because they can’t update the OS? it just stops working?
 
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Hmm, as an upgrade to a 2016 9.7" WiFi iPad Pro...

Pros (of the 2019 Air)
Faster (2972 vs ~5000 per Geekbench)
Screen size
RAM (3Gb vs. 2Gb)


Cons (of the 2019 Air)
Weight (437g vs 456g, minor, but shouldn't "Air" mean something?
Speakers (4 vs. 2)
Rear camera (12 vs 8 megapixel. f2.4 vs f2.2)

Tie
Headphone jack
Resolution
Lightning connector
Original Apple Pencil support
Touch ID

Other
No 128Gb size, big price jump unless you're okay with 64Gb

I'm sure I'm missing some stuff (front camera?), admittedly focusing on the bits I care about.

Tempting, as (for me) the headphone jack, lightning connector, Touch ID and original Pencil support are huge, probably my last chance to get those in a new iPad. (I realize these are personal preferences. I just hate Face ID and having a million cables, and have an original Pencil.) But the price seems high (for > 64Gb) and I feel like I'm going annoyed again by the RAM constraint pretty soon (always seems to be frustration with Apple stuff).
 
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