There were serious talks that IGZO would be used so that the mini would not be made thicker to get retina (the retina mini is now slightly thicker). Also since we knew iPad 5 would be thinner, it was assumed that IGZO would have to be used to allow for that.
Yes it will be interesting to see the benchmarks. iPad air should perform even better than 5S.
The SAME cpu/gpu should perform BETTER when pushing WAY more pixels to a MUCH larger screen??
Can you explain why that would happen to me please?