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Early benchmarks show the likely performance gains of the iPad Air’s new M4 chip - 9to5Mac
Publisher description: As it usually happens when new Apple products are about to hit the shelves, early Geekbench benchmark results are already making the rounds.
NewsAPI | Mar 4, 2026 | Marcus Mendes
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Here’s how two results credited to the M4 iPad Air turned out. As spotted by MacRumors, two Geekbench test results surfaced earlier today purporting to be for the new M4 iPad Air. On Geekbench, the 13” Wi-Fi + Cellular M4 iPad Pro scored 3,704 in single-core and 13,805 in multi-core CPU performance tests, suggesting that the new M4 chip of the iPad Air is between on par and 7% slower in single-core, and roughly 7% to 11% slower in multi-core performance.
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