TapTechNews May 14 news, the iPad Pro equipped with the 9-core CPU M4 chip has appeared on the Geekbench 6 scoring website. Although it is slightly inferior to the 10-core version, the overall performance is still very impressive.
TapTechNews noticed that the exposed score this time is for the low-spec version of the M4 chip, which has 9 CPU cores. The test results show that the multi-core performance of the 9-core M4 is about 10% lower than the 10-core version. This difference is expected because the 10-core version has an additional performance core.
However, even the slightly weaker 9-core M4 has improved multi-core performance by about 13% compared to the previous generation M3 chip, and is more than 35% faster than the M2 chip used in the previous generation iPad Pro.
Here is a comparison of Geekbench 6 multi-core scores for different chips:
10-core M4 chip: about 14600 points
9-core M4 chip: about 13000 points
8-core M3 chip: about 11600 points
8-core M2 chip: about 9600 points
The upcoming 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro will offer two storage configuration options: the 256GB and 512GB versions will be equipped with the 9-core M4 chip, while the 1TB and 2TB versions will have the more powerful 10-core M4 chip. It is worth mentioning that all versions will use the 10-core GPU graphics processor.
Interestingly, the score data shows that the iPad Pro equipped with the 9-core M4 chip is running the unreleased iPadOS 17.6 system, while the 10-core version shows as iPadOS 17.4, and the first test version of iPadOS 17.6 is expected to be released later this month.
The new iPad Pro will be officially released this Wednesday.