The new entry-level IPAD in the test: good & cheap?

A16 chip with core core

About the innovations: Apple exchanged the A14 Bionic for the A16 chip from the iPhone 14 Pro. Unlike there, he only brings three instead of four efficiency nuclei. While the results of the geekbench almost the same, everyone only creates 90 percent of the iPhone value. The GPU also robbed Apple one of the five kernels actually and it has about 80 percent of the performance of the iPhone 14 Pro. Nevertheless, the iPad 11 also outbids the iPad 10 by 50 to 64 percent in CPU performance and 17 to 22 percent in GPU tests with its slimmed-down chip. This is primarily related to the increase in the CPU stroke from 3 to 3.5 GHz and the enlargement of the working memory from 4 to 6 GB.

The performance of the 16-core AI unit (Neural Engine) has even improved by 85 percent. That is enough, together with the still too tight RAM, but according to the manufacturer, not sufficient for the functions of Apple Intelligence. After playing Ipados 18.4, the dialogue did not even appear to set up the AI. Demanding games such as Assassins Creed: Mirage or the Resident Evil series do not run on the normal iPad, but Final Cut Pro and Logic with the basic functions. The iPad 11 feels very quick when writing or surfing and should still perform enough for standard tasks in the next few years.

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