Apple iPad Air 2 GPU tested, outclasses Tegra K1

23 October, 2014
GFXBench's offscreen and onscreen tests show the Apple iPad Air 2 as a tremendous graphics performer.

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  • 24 Oct 2014

AnonD-233308, 23 Oct 2014That was for the 6 plus using the A8, we can't assume that ... moreActually it's much more logical to assume it does.

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    • 24 Oct 2014

    AnonD-299124, 23 Oct 2014Nexus 9 got absolutely smoked by the A8X. Go read some revi... moreGreat. An apple bias link showing a brand new apple chip being strong.
    That totally means everything you say has to be true.

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      • 23 Oct 2014

      AnonD-299124, 23 Oct 2014haha @ android fanboys crying. When the 14nm 64 bit A9X com... moreOh....yeah....let me tell you.
      All of you going around bragging and exaggerating sure makes this amazing and means the people who are just being logical are supposedly crying.....

      It's just really strong graphics on a new chip. And it's about graphics not the whole chip.

      Plus when 14nm comes??? You mean the ones Samsung has already been hard at work at?
      And how almost all major chips will be armv8 then?

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        • 23 Oct 2014

        X, 23 Oct 2014I think you made a fool of yourself enough for today. Show... moreYou still want to continue this burying yourself and you don't even know copper is major heatsink!??

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          • 23 Oct 2014

          AnonD-319715, 23 Oct 2014The discussion was about the back-panel, not heat sink. Le... moreExactly

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            • 23 Oct 2014

            X, 23 Oct 2014If you take into account the bigger screen resolution for t... moreThose tests have almost nothing to do with cpu.

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              • q8Q
              • 23 Oct 2014

              X, 23 Oct 2014"Lastly an aluminum body retains more heat throughout ... moreMeanwhile aluminum phones get hotter and it lasts longer.
              That's a cute reply though. You choose one aspect of a whole comment proving someone's claims ridiculous to tell me that one aspect shows how truly lacking I am.

              And then contradict the truth to do so. I'm going by what the phones themselves do.
              You sure no how to make an amazing reply

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                • 23 Oct 2014

                AnonD-105795, 23 Oct 2014iFans don't care about specs, lol. Somehow they do :)iOS has all important specifications for a smartphone.

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                  • 23 Oct 2014

                  iFans don't care about specs, lol. Somehow they do :)

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                    • 23 Oct 2014

                    ahmed, 23 Oct 2014Don't forget that apple is ahead of the game.I mean next ye... moreYou don't know anything about chip manufacturing? Apple doesn't make their own chips, they design them and that is it. Others like Samsung and TSMC manufacture them and they just moved to 20nm. Every step towards smaller transistors gets harder and harder.
                    Intel has their own factories and are a step ahead compared to others. Now, what makes you think Intel will allow Apple to use their factories?

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                      • 23 Oct 2014

                      heynekko, 23 Oct 2014All graphic test on iOS uses upscaling of smaller resolutio... moreThe only reason why it upscales was that new iPhones brought new screen resolutions and so Geekbench didn't support it. iPads 2048x1536 has been used for 2.5 years. Don't talk BS, please.

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                        • 23 Oct 2014

                        AnonD-308243, 23 Oct 2014buddy simply put. this test compared two non compatible dev... morehttp://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/21/apples-new-a8x-powered-ipad-air-2-smokes-new-android-tablets-including-nvidias-tegra-k1
                        There is a link to the Nexus 9 scores (64 bits) published by GSMArena themselves.
                        Too bad we didn't have a bet on this;).

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                          • 23 Oct 2014

                          Anonymous, 23 Oct 2014www.qats.com/cms/2010/10/18/which-material-offers-the-best-... moreThe discution started from the statement made by a "wise guy" that plastic is better than aluminium for heat dissipation. Was in relation with the aluminium case of the iPad vs the plastic case of Nexus 9 and Tegra Shield.

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                            • 23 Oct 2014

                            heynekko, 23 Oct 2014All graphic test on iOS uses upscaling of smaller resolutio... moreThat was for the 6 plus using the A8, we can't assume that the iPad Air 2 does the same thing using the A8X.

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                              • 23 Oct 2014

                              All graphic test on iOS uses upscaling of smaller resolution (read: cheating) thereby negating the results.

                              http://m.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_6-review-1141p5.php

                              Read the graphics section. Nope PowerVR is not the most powerful graphic chip. Nvidia is still the king.

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                                • 23 Oct 2014

                                Not really., 23 Oct 2014Not really outclassed. I'd say they're neck and neck.Neck to neck, but ipad is clearly a bit better than k1.

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                                  • 23 Oct 2014

                                  AnonD-308243, 23 Oct 2014buddy simply put. this test compared two non compatible dev... moreYou also need the applications to be coded in a 64-bit compute space to actually take advantage of the 64-bit extensions.

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                                    • 23 Oct 2014

                                    Anonymous, 23 Oct 2014Your analogy is wrong. Maybe not the bit of ios being optim... moreYes there is 1 basic instruction set for ARM, after that there are extensions created, controllers added, cache added, and other features and technical aspects added to the core. Apple engineers their own chip designs as well, giving them an even bigger edge on this.

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                                      • 23 Oct 2014

                                      Wonder why other companies don't use the PowerVR line more... they have been the best performer for the longest time! And is not even like Apple claimed they can be the only one using them.

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                                        • 23 Oct 2014

                                        X, 23 Oct 2014Oh, and btw, your hands are at a (constant) temperature of ... morebuddy simply put. this test compared two non compatible devices the shield tab is using a 32bit procesing system and the itab is on 64bit so u can just see the main disadvantage the shield is at from that only. so if you switch the shield k1 from 32 bit to 64 bit based on this current test do you honestly believe the itab would be in the same class? cmon pal commonsense is what counts at times.