An iPhone that’s faster than an iPad? It’s certainly possible with Apple. The iPad mini 7 presented this week comes with the A17 Pro SoC known from the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. But this, as it now turns out, was subject to binning. That means: Last year’s iPhone Pro models offer (slightly) more performance than this year’s new compact tablets.
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Points deducted for iPad Mini 7
Apple knew this would happen ipad mini 7 specifications Already indicated. Because it says the smaller tablet has a 6-core CPU, but only a 5-core GPU. However, the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max have a 6-core CPU with a 6-core GPU. The iPad Mini 7 has one less graphics core. The practical impact is likely to be relatively small.
show me anyway first geekbench benchmark differences. The iPad mini 7 has a single-core value of 2840, a multi-core value of 6982, and a metal GPU value of 25895. The iPhone 15 Pro, on the other hand, has 2888, 7169 and 27144 points – the extra cores do it out a bit. However, the benchmarks also show that both devices are equipped with 8GB of RAM – which is also required for Apple Intelligence.
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Scrap still to be used
Binning means that Apple considers the iPad Mini 7 to be an A17 Pro in which one of the graphics cores was turned off (or had to be turned off due to scrap). The performance of the previous 2021 model, the iPad mini 6 with A15 Bionic, definitely beats that of the iPad mini 7. Only 5 GPU cores were installed here, but at the same time only 4 GB of memory. The Geekbench score for single-core was 2121, for multi-core was 5367 (both CPUs) and the Metal GPU value was only 19486.
It remains to be seen what impact binning will have on game performance. The resolution of the iPad Mini should be different from the iPhone – even if they aren’t that far off. 1179 by 2556 pixels at 461 dpi. There are 2266 by 1488 pixels on the iPad mini and 326 dpi on the iPhone 15 Pro. The AI ​​benchmarks should also be interesting.
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