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Geekbench scores for Apple's new iPad Pro have appeared, and they sure are impressive. At least one configuration of the iPad Pro tablet, which you can see on Geekbench here, with its A12X Bionic system on a chip (SoC) achieved a single core score of 5,030 and a multi-core score of 17,995.
Some sites, like 9to5Mac, which first found the scores, point out that the A12X Bionic's performance isn't far behind some powerful Intel chips. However, it's possible that variants in what tests are being run (AArch64 for ARM versus 64- or 32-bit for Intel) could have an effect. When we tested the 13-inch MacBook Pro with an Intel Core i7-8559U, it achieved a multi-core score of 17,348.
The model tested, named iPad8,8, lists 5,650MB of memory, which confirms speculation that at least some iPad models have 6GB of RAM. It has been speculated that 1TB iPad Pros get 6GB of RAM, while those with lesser storage only get 4GB. It's possible that the configurations with 4GB would produce slightly lesser scores.
On the GPU-based compute test, the same iPad model earned a score of 42,038.
It's rumored that iOS 13 could include a big redesign with new features, so it's possible that this power is simply future-proofing the iPad Pro. Either way, Apple's team in Cupertino is proving that it's chip division is nothing to mess with.
The iPad Pro is being tested in the wild now, but for most people it will be available on November 7 starting at $799 for the 11-inch model and $999 for a 12.9-inch model.
A conspiracy that seems to have plagued Apple devices for years might have been confirmed this week by some sleuthing by some Redditors and Geekbench, purveyors of the popular benchmarking service.
Users have claimed over the years that newer versions of iOS seem to degrade performance on older devices, which many attributed to a possibly plot by Apple to encourage users to upgrade from older devices to the latest version of the iPhone. Geekbench's findings may provide definitive proof for this alleged deterioration of performance, and gives some more insight into why Apple may have chosen to do so.
Some users on Reddit have noticed that devices with lower battery capacities or those whose battery life has deteriorated after a few years of use seem to work slower. As a result, some users started replacing their battery as a possible solution to the problem, and noticed an enormous change in the clock speed of the processor, suggesting Apple is throttling devices with lower battery capacity on purpose in order to feign the illusion of an all-day battery life.
So it's true Apple intentionally slow down old iPhones. Proof: My iPhone 6 was bought 3years ago and recently got really slow. APP 'CPU DasherX' shows iPhone CPU is under clocked running at 600MHz. After a iPhone battery replacement. CPU speed resumed to factory setting 1400MHz. pic.twitter.com/pML3y0Jkp2
— Sam_Si (@sam_siruomu) December 20, 2017![News News](/uploads/1/2/5/7/125792521/653003882.jpg)
Sustained observations of the performance of the iPhone 6S and iPhone 7 over a period of time by Geekbench seem to corroborate these findings, as they show a large delta in the performance of different devices after installing iOS 10.2.1 and 11.2.0, suggesting that these updates included throttling instructions for some models of iPhones.
iOS 10.2.1, in particular, was released after reports of random shutdowns on iPhones 6 and 6S and Geekbench claims that Apple's solution to the problem was to throttle CPU performance in order to stop random shutdowns. They also claim iOS 11.2.0 used similar tactics for iPhone 7 devices with a low battery capacity.
If true, this behaviour by Apple is of course particularly troubling, as the company has willingly chosen to degrade users' experience without informing them. The solution in question also has the disadvantage of causing users to falsely believe that they need to buy a newer model of the iPhone in order to get a better experience, when in fact they could achieve the same by simply replacing the battery, a solution that is much cheaper.
Source: Geekbench via The Verge