What is the power of the '5th generation iPad Air' equipped with M1? I tried to compare with the previous generation and benchmark test etc.
The ' 5th Generation iPad Air ' equipped with the significantly improved M1 chip appeared on March 18, 2022 (Friday). I tried to confirm the ability of M1 called 'impressive' by benchmark test and application.
iPad Air-Apple (Japan)
The 5th generation iPad Air (left) looks and is exactly the same as the 4th generation iPad Air (right) that appeared in 2020. One of the changes is the front camera (front camera), which has been replaced by a 7MP to 12MP ultra-wide-angle camera. It also supports a center frame where the camera follows the subject.
So, I investigated the range that the two iPad Air cameras can capture. The following is an image taken when three objects are arranged at intervals of about 40 cm and two iPad Airs are placed at a position about 150 cm away from the central object. Move the bar to the left to see the photos taken with the 5th generation iPad Air, and move it to the right to see the photos taken with the 4th generation iPad Air.
Next, I did a benchmark test using two apps,
First from Geekbench 5. The version of Geekbench 5 is 4.4 and the iOS version is 15.4. We compare the results of two measurements and use a better score. Below is the CPU score for the 5th generation iPad Air. The result is a single-core score of 1707 and a multi-core score of 7265.
Comparing the 5th generation iPad Air (left) with the 3rd generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro (center) and the 4th generation iPad Air (right) equipped with the same M1, it looks like this. There is not much difference between M1 equipped terminals, which is a big difference from the 4th generation iPad Air equipped with A14 Bionic.
Comparing the single core scores, it looks like this. The numbers have been greatly increased in items such as Navigation, Face Detection, and Image Inpainting.
Next, I compared the multi-core scores. Compared to the 4th generation iPad Air, the 5th generation iPad Air and the 3rd generation iPad Pro have almost doubled the scores in AES-XTS (encryption speed) and Clang (C language compilation).
Next, let's test using AnTuTu. You can see the test in the video below.
The result is below. There is a big difference in GPU score etc.
I tried using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom etc. to see if I could actually use the app and experience the difference.
The following image files with a relatively large file size of 17 MB are opened on each of the 5th generation iPad Air and the 4th generation iPad Air, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom uses the machine learning technology Adobe Sensei to provide 'Select Sky'. I tried using the function.
The video at that time is below. The left is the 5th generation iPad Air, and the right is the 4th generation iPad Air. I loaded the same image without a read cache, but it's a little slower on the right, so there's not much difference.
I also tried 'Select Subject', which is also processed using Adobe Sensei, but it didn't make a surprising difference.
However, after trying various things,
The 5th generation iPad Air is a cheaper device that allows you to experience the performance of the M1 at the time of writing the article. If you want to watch videos and play games as comfortably as possible, it may be worth considering purchasing.
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