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I'm kinda surprised (in a good way) that they put the A14 in the Air. But where does that leave the Pro now (with only A12Z)? Or is the Z part of that processo
by jonplackett 6y ago
I'm kinda surprised (in a good way) that they put the A14 in the Air. But where does that leave the Pro now (with only A12Z)?
Or is the Z part of that processor so much faster that it's still got better performance?
- suyash 6y agoPro has LIDAR camera, Air doesn't
- jonplackett 6y agoYeah... but it's still 2 years of processor ahead!
- newscracker 6y agoI wondered about this too. My guess is that there will be a new iPad Pro by February 2021 with an A14X or similar processor (considering that the first Macs with Apple chips will have aomething like A14Z or similar variant).
- iwasakabukiman 6y agoIt actually has the A12 Z, not even the A13.
- jonplackett 6y agofixed it! thanks.
- nudded 6y agothe A14 is a 6-core CPU, the A12Z is an 8-core CPU. So we'll have to wait for benchmarks to know for sure.
- theodric 6y agoZ is the fastest letter. Except for tires.
- saagarjha 6y agoX and Z are the same thing essentially ;)
- paulpan 6y agoMe too! It seems very odd (nouveau?) that Apple is announcing a new A-series chip (A14) with an iPad, rather than an iPhone. Even more so that it's not even a Pro version. Eyeing the A14 vs. the A12X/A12Z, it look like it could be similar since there's 2 less cores for CPU and GPU but there's also a 2-year architecture improvements plus a node shrinkage from 7nm to 5nm. We'll see once 3rd party benchmarks come out. This suggests that the new Pro will be significantly better, at least in the chip compartment. Otherwise Apple would've put the A13 to differentiate between the Air and the Pro lineups.
- jonplackett 6y ago> Otherwise Apple would've put the A13 to differentiate between the Air and the Pro lineups. Yeah that's what I was expecting. Have any iPads (even pros) even had the latest year's chips before? I wonder if the plan is to push the iPad Air up a notch into pro usage (would explain usb-c), and also push the Pro up another notch too even more into pro laptop territory. It will be interesting to see how they peg the iPad Pro VS the new MacBook with apple silicon - which will they want to be more powerful? Maybe it will just be a difference of how much RAM is in there.
- paulpan 6y agoI suspect so too, the pricing seems to hint at this - the previous gen Air started at $499 whereas this is $100 more at $599. Now this creates a fair big pricing gap between entry level iPad at $329. Going to be interesting in how Apple positions the new iPad Pro and the new Macbook. Dare they price the Pro higher despite it having iPad OS and not macOS?!
- Marsymars 6y ago> I suspect so too, the pricing seems to hint at this - the previous gen Air started at $499 whereas this is $100 more at $599. Now this creates a fair big pricing gap between entry level iPad at $329. Yeah, I had a base iPad, before moving to a 2019 iPad Air, but with the price increase for the Air, I'll probably skip at least this year and move back to the base iPad series.
- saagarjha 6y agoA12Z is still approximately 25% faster than A13, even with a slightly lower single-core score. I suspect that A12Z is probably similar to the A14 in performance.