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M1 iPad Pro Over 50% Faster Than Previous Generation in Early Benchmarks
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I don’t know. Affinity photo works really good on my iPad pro. MS Word is excruciating, though. Is it because of the OS? Serif did a pretty good job with affinity, regardless of the OS.
It still run quite well, true, but I do see the limitations of the hardware from time to time. So I do think the improvements will not be negligible.
I am not suggesting apps can't run well under the current OS much less iPadOS 15. I am saying that users won't see the full potential of Apple's apps and third party apps, so long as Apple continues with the anemic, slow trickle of benefits to the OS. In my opinion, we should be much father along what the iPad than what we have bee seeing.
I hope Apple wow's us with OS love at WWDC.
My current, every-day laptop is a 2016 MacBook Pro 15" that I bought maxed out.
Radeon Pro 460, fastest GPU available at the time: 16.5k to the M1 iPads 20k
CPU: 858/3335 to the M1 iPad 1719/7326
Seriously. I've got one pre-ordered, and when it arrives it'll be the most powerful computer I own. The only thing faster will be my gaming PC with a GTX 1080Ti, which the iPad will smoke in CPU performance but the PC will be about 30% faster in graphics... which in and of itself is INSANE given that just a few years ago that was the fastest GPU on the market.
This performance is insane! I hope that I actually get to take advantage of it; and that software takes advantage of it. Full desktop versions of apps from Adobe, for example. We shall see!
Radeon Pro 460, fastest GPU available at the time: 16.5k to the M1 iPads 20k
CPU: 858/3335 to the M1 iPad 1719/7326
Seriously. I've got one pre-ordered, and when it arrives it'll be the most powerful computer I own. The only thing faster will be my gaming PC with a GTX 1080Ti, which the iPad will smoke in CPU performance but the PC will be about 30% faster in graphics... which in and of itself is INSANE given that just a few years ago that was the fastest GPU on the market.
This performance is insane! I hope that I actually get to take advantage of it; and that software takes advantage of it. Full desktop versions of apps from Adobe, for example. We shall see!
Well it looks like my 2020 iPad Pro is gonna run like an iPad 3 in a year or two. Oh well, at least it can live on as travel display through sidecar.
If it's the same processor as in new Macs could it be we will see iPads running both OSs? Mac OS when keyboard attached and iPad OS when keyboard detached.
like, i said, these days the apps are the core...photoshop can be fully ported, like the xcode final cut etc
the iPAD OS is second, it already is doing a better job of eating the hardware gpu cpu for its apps
x86-based devices have a plethora of desktop class operating systems to choose from. So yes, they can run something better than Windows.
Entry-level x86-based Surfaces are slow like x86-based entry-level MacBook’s are slow.
pro apps to run at full potential must be made by developers in 2021...in case of xcode, final cut pro, logic pro...its in Apples hands...ipadOS can run and be the same for the end user, the rest..adobe must work for this with apple to bring full pro apps...so Apple its the core if you want to speak about DNA...
there are already so many full apps that run the same for desktop x86 and for ipados already
until now, the RAM was the big drawback...but now with 8-16gb ram...pro apps will fly
I really feel like those hoping for massive changes for “iPadOS” next month are in for a comparably sized disappointment. Maybe we’re wrong, though!
Fastest street-legal production car in the world.
And you’re driving in a residential area.
And you’re driving in a residential area.
Fun fact:
M1 iPad Pro: 7284
Mac Pro (2013, max config): 7037
M1 iPad Pro: 7284
Mac Pro (2013, max config): 7037
Ax Performance Test
Simple non-deterministic cube performance test. Measures CPU and GPU performance. Drops cubes until the frame rate averages less than 60. Cubes stack and tumble following rigid body physics properties. CPU performance is measured via physics performance and GPU is measured via the number of...
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Try running Ax Performance Test to see how it compares to A14 and MacBook M1 in a physics/graphics test.
I don't agree at all. The simple act of loading a webpage, which I do hundreds of times a day, will be significantly faster. That means a lot to me. Full FCPX would also be nice for sure, but I am very happy with raw speed.
Yep. My partner uses an iPad as her "main" computer, and the workflow is just terrible. Completely unintuitive.
When the new high-end Pro laptops come out next year, I'm getting a new MBP and she's getting this machine.
When the new high-end Pro laptops come out next year, I'm getting a new MBP and she's getting this machine.
I’m definitely excited to get mine in the next couple of weeks (256gb, 12.9” cellular). It will be my daily driver for the next 3-4 years, and expect it will perform admirably for its lifespan. It’s going to be interesting to see what Apple does with iPadOS 15 later this year.
It was so obvious that Apple held back on updating the A12X (the Z version really doesn’t count), so the gains are actually on a 2 year old chip. It’s still great performance gains that hopefully iPadOS 15 will be better able to utilize.
It was so obvious that Apple held back on updating the A12X (the Z version really doesn’t count), so the gains are actually on a 2 year old chip. It’s still great performance gains that hopefully iPadOS 15 will be better able to utilize.
This is an insane amount of computing ability for a tablet.
I suppose it's "future proof". My 2018 iPad Pro is still going strong and I have yet to notice any performance issues with it. I mean, I got the Pro model because of that. I expect to get 5 years at a minimum out of the thing, which I think it totally reasonable.
But I think a lot of other users here are correct. the iPad Pro is seriously hobbled by the OS.
I suppose it's "future proof". My 2018 iPad Pro is still going strong and I have yet to notice any performance issues with it. I mean, I got the Pro model because of that. I expect to get 5 years at a minimum out of the thing, which I think it totally reasonable.
But I think a lot of other users here are correct. the iPad Pro is seriously hobbled by the OS.
And touch screen completely disabled when running MacOS
