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iPad Pro M4 Geekbench scores wow…
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I ran the Speedometer 2.0 test
M4 iPad Pro (9 Core CPU - 8GB RAM) - 616
M1 iPad Pro (8 Core CPU - 8GB RAM) - 418
+47%
M4 iPad Pro (9 Core CPU - 8GB RAM) - 616
M1 iPad Pro (8 Core CPU - 8GB RAM) - 418
+47%
That M1 iPad Pro score seems lower than I might expect, because I get 509 on an M1 Mac mini 16 GB.
BTW, that M4 Magic Keyboard looks way nicer than the M1 Magic Keyboard.
The M1 MK reminds me of an iBook. What keyboard layout is that? That narrow return key would drive me nuts. Same for the narrow left shift.Keyboard is “international English”That M1 iPad Pro score seems lower than I might expect, because I get 509 on an M1 Mac mini 16 GB.
BTW, that M4 Magic Keyboard looks way nicer than the M1 Magic Keyboard.
In Belgium we traditionally have AZERTY which is more for French Speaking (I’m Dutch speaking) + the numbers are on top so you always have to press shift which is irritating as accountant
That doesn't sound right, my M1 Mac mini just got 497 and 502.
Yeah I'm Canadian and I never get Canadian multilingual (French/English) or international English keyboards because of those narrow shift and return keys. However, since I'm English-speaking, it's easy to just use the US English layout.
Some of the cheap Chromebooks and cheap Windows laptops here come with Canadian multilingual keyboards or occasionally international English, while the US English ones are either unavailable or else are special order and/or cost extra. Luckily for Apple, the default is just US English or else French Canadian.
Maybe there are some background services sucking up CPU cycles, plus I find this test highly variable. I ran it three times and got 509, 500, and 466 or something like that.
Could be
Dumb question Perhaps: does WiFi matter for Speedometer? Because I have pretty mediocre WiFi in my flat. I need some booster. It’s a very small flat but too well insulated and the router is in a small room with thick walls between my living room / kitchen and the small room where the router is
Not sure, but I'm guessing it probably doesn't matter much.
About Speedometer 2.0
Speedometer tests a browser's Web app responsiveness by timing simulated user interactions.
This benchmark simulates user actions for adding, completing, and removing to-do items using multiple examples in TodoMVC. Each example in TodoMVC implements the same todo application using DOM APIs in different ways. Some call DOM APIs directly from ECMAScript 5 (ES5), ECMASCript 2015 (ES6), ES6 transpiled to ES5, and Elm transpiled to ES5. Others use one of eleven popular JavaScript frameworks: React, React with Redux, Ember.js, Backbone.js, AngularJS, (new) Angular, Vue.js, jQuery, Preact, Inferno, and Flight. Many of these frameworks are used on the most popular websites in the world, such as Facebook and Twitter. The performance of these types of operations depends on the speed of the DOM APIs, the JavaScript engine, CSS style resolution, layout, and other technologies.
Although user-driven actions like mouse movements and keyboard input cannot be accurately emulated in JavaScript, Speedometer does its best to faithfully replay a typical workload within the demo applications. To make the run time long enough to measure with the limited precision, we synchronously execute a large number of the operations, such as adding one hundred to-do items.
Modern browser engines execute some work asynchronously as an optimization strategy to reduce the run time of synchronous operations. While returning control back to JavaScript execution as soon as possible is worth pursuing, the run time cost of such an asynchronous work should still be taken into a holistic measurement of web application performance. In addition, some modern JavaScript frameworks such as Vue.js and Preact call into DOM APIs asynchronously as an optimization technique. Speedometer approximates the run time of this asynchronous work in the UI thread with a zero-second timer that is scheduled immediately after each execution of synchronous operations.
Speedometer does not attempt to measure concurrent asynchronous work that does not directly impact the UI thread, which tends not to affect app responsiveness.
Note: Speedometer should not be used as a way to compare the performance of different JavaScript frameworks as work load differs greatly in each framework.
Which browser you use is a major factor. Speedometer is first and foremost a browser benchmark.
I thought the difference in the displays in your pics was interesting - are your settings different on the two devices?
No, I've never messed with the settings on my displays. The only thing that was a bit different was that the auto brightness on the M4 was slightly higher.
In person, do you see the reddish tinge in the M4 device or is that an artifact of being photographed? It's really quite striking in your pictures.