Some analysts had been warning that the processor of the iPad Pro 2021 would be similar to the powerful M1 of the Mac and the truth is that the reality went even further, since Apple presented it directly with that same chip. Although it cannot yet be purchased as such (if you reserve it), the first performance data of this have already emerged, being 50% faster than the previous one . We tell you more details below.
Surprise with the first tests of the iPad Pro 2021
Until the M1, the A12Z Bionic chip was the most powerful ARM processor ever designed by Apple. Even more than the A14 Bionic also presented in 2020. Such was the performance of this chip that it was even the one chosen by Apple in the test Mac mini so that developers could adapt their apps to the new architecture that would definitely be coming with the M1. However, we now observe how that chip of the iPad Pro 2020 has been far exceeded by the M1 that already has the 2021 model.
On the Geekbench website the performance data of numerous electronic devices of this type are usually made public and there we can already see the first data that a member of the press who has had in advance this iPad Pro for their analysis. In fact, there are not only results of one test but there are even 5, all of them from this week. In MacRumors they have been in charge of making an average of them, leaving an average score of 7,284 in multi core .
To put some perspective, it falls short of the MacBook Air with the M1 chip (7,378 points) and comfortably beats the 16 ″ MacBook Pro with i9, which remains with 6,845 points. Regarding the aforementioned A12Z Bionic chip from the previous iPad Pro , it is relegated to lower positions with 4,656 points. We therefore see here an important point in the differences between the iPad Pro 2020 and 2021.
Waiting for an iPadOS 15 to put the icing on the cake
So much raw power in an iPad Pro makes us hopelessly remember what happened with the tablet of this range that Apple launched at the end of 2018. That generation represented a change in design and a step forward in terms of hardware, although with an iOS per operating system that it did not quite get the most out of high-end components. However, at WWDC the following year iPadOS was presented for the first time and the sense of having an iPad with such power began to be seen.
In this 2021 we could be having a déjà vu in this sense, since it is tremendously strange to see an iPad with such performance without having a software with which we can get more out of it, despite the benefits that iPadOS 14 already has. With WWDC 2021 just around the corner (June 7), we can already imagine that iPadOS 15 could have a special relevance this year. How? We do not know, but surely in Cupertino they have designed software to match this iPad Pro.