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Mighty iPad Pro, now slower than a phone!?

Codeseven said:
Well, according to Geekbench.

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...rms-ipad-pros-a9x-in-benchmark-tests.1993007/

Psychologically speaking, there's no way I can spend that kind of money on one now. It'll have to be the Pro 2 with the A10+ chip for me.
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I agree, but let's look on the bright side and twist the story: a phone, now quicker than the mighty iPad Pro!

Incredible what Apple have achieved with this. And yes, whichever A10 chip will ship in the next iPad Pro will be a ballistic beast of biblical proportions :D
 
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Codeseven said:
Well, according to Geekbench.

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...rms-ipad-pros-a9x-in-benchmark-tests.1993007/

Psychologically speaking, there's no way I can spend that kind of money on one now. It'll have to be the Pro 2 with the A10+ chip for me.
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If you're the type that owns a device primarily for running benchmarks, you have a point, and you'll probably be waiting 6-12 months for that update. For the rest of us, it continues to be a beast of a tablet.
 
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I ran my own geek bench score on my iPad Pro and it was 3231 and 5481, which is about the very same as the iPhone 7. So it will vary between system to system
 
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ABC5S said:
I ran my own geek bench score on my iPad Pro and it was 3231 and 5481, which is about this very same as the iPhone 7. So it will vary between system to system
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True ...I got similar results and the iPad Pro will throttle less.....remember Apple has to be more battery conservative with the new iPhones.....
 
Is any one actually surprised that the next Apple CPU is faster than the last one? It's been the same song since the 3GS "The AXX is twice as fast and the graphics are blah blah blah..."
When Apple announces a new product and it's slower than the last one is the year that people explode with rage and they lose most credibility.
 
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Just so glad I didn't buy the iPad Pro at launch. It's getting as outdated as Macs.
 
I'm not too concerned as the pro has USB 3.0 and 4GB of RAM while getting the same geekbench numbers. lol... It would be cool if Apple did an update in November to the iPP 12.9. Otherwise having a phone that is now almost equal to the iPP is not going to kill me. And as it stands... the iPPs are still faster and more powerful than many laptops and all other tablets on the market, so I don't see why having an iPhone with an equal processor is a problem. ;)


Kallum.
 
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Kal-037 said:
I'm not too concerned as the pro has USB 3.0 and 4GB of RAM while getting the same geekbench numbers. lol... It would be cool if Apple did an update in November to the iPP 12.9. Otherwise having a phone that is now almost equal to the iPP is not going to kill me. And as it stands... the iPPs are still faster and more powerful than many laptops and all other tablets on the market, so I don't see why having an iPhone with an equal processor is a problem. ;)


Kallum.
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Yup - my IPP 9.7 has more than enough speed, and it's awesome to think it will only get faster in the future!

Plus, it's really cool that the IP 7 will be as powerful as most laptops. Wow.
 
sracer said:
If you're the type that owns a device primarily for running benchmarks, you have a point, and you'll probably be waiting 6-12 months for that update. For the rest of us, it continues to be a beast of a tablet.
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I totally agree with sracer on this - chasing specs on computers has been foolish since computers have been in the consumer space. Does the device do what you want right now? Yes? Good - buy it (unless you KNOW the new one is coming out in a month, then I"D say wait). No? Then don't buy it and look to another product (because odds are that the next one isn't going to do it for you either).

Forget about the "I have to have the absolute best, cutting edge!" - it's never going to happen because you'll always be waiting.
 
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Booji said:
Yup - my IPP 9.7 has more than enough speed, and it's awesome to think it will only get faster in the future!

Plus, it's really cool that the IP 7 will be as powerful as most laptops. Wow.
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What really impressed me with the A10 that they mentioned in the keynote is Lightroom on an iPhone 7 will be able to do 90% of its full fledge desktop big brother. Just imagine what the A10X will do in the next 12.9" iPad Pro. With the Pencil, with a pretty much laptop size screen, with the 4GB of RAM. It will be almost identical to if you were to use a Wacom in Lightroom on a desktop, yet far more portable. The only thing that will make that sexier would be adding Jet Black to the 12.9" iPad Pro.
 
Until the pro actually does more than it does now...processor speed is clearly not a issue (This statement goes for the iphone as well).... same people will be saying something when the A11 arrives...do you guys even think about throttling...ipads throttle much less than iPhones for higher performance overall...what will anyone be doing differently with a iPad pro or iPhone that takes advantage of the processor....clearly nothing
 
Again I am waiting for the 10 th Anniversary iPhone 8 next year. With OLED Display and A11 CPU. My iPad Pro 9.7 will be fine til then.

IMO it's slightly faster in real world use because it throttles less and you can't beat the 9.7 inch Display even the iPhone 7 Plus is still stuck at 1080p
 
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With technology, there will always be something better (in this case a year after the iPad Pro was originally released) however I get where you're coming from. It bothered me that my 6s was more powerful than my air 2 which is why I upgraded to the Pro, but they're both still beasts regardless.
 
LOL. Doesn't bother me in the least. It is not as if anything that I run on the iPad Pro really taxes it. Do you?

The CPU is the least of my problems with my iPad Pro - the Pro's performance is very, very good.
 
It's a game of leapfrog. iPhones come out with faster processors than current iPads, then iPads come out that surpass the iPhones, and so on. The only people it bothers are the ones who have to have the the device with the best specs, but nothing is ever the best for more than a year, and it's gotten to the point that it really doesn't matter.
 
Apple decides how powerful they want their CPU to be. Nothing in any production model phone or tablet is anywhere close to what they are capable of. They follow heat yields, sizes, production capabilities, etc. Apple could plop a 4ghz A15 in the next iPhone if they wanted. Unfortunately for consumers, they're designing specific chips with specific performance so that each iteration is a bit more powerful than the one previous and so the software provides the best experience on only the newest device. Something everyone on here should know by now.

What's more telling is that Apple released a powerful CPU in the iPhone, they might be getting ready to deliver something more potent in the next iOS release that they want the iPhone 7 to deliver. Either that, or everything A9 and earlier will slow to a crawl next year.
 
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