


The M2/M1 iPad Pro and iPad Air all have the same battery life: The iPad Pro only comes in space gray and silver. It comes in space gray, starlight, pink, purple, and blue. If the color of your next iPad is an important piece, you’ve got five options with the iPad Air. But as mmWave is the rarest version of 5G coverage to find, that’s probably not an issue for most people. Like the iPhone SE 3, the iPad Air doesn’t get mmWave 5G support with its cellular models.
#IPAD PRO M2 GEEKBENCH BLUETOOTH#
Two other small upgrades with the M2 iPad Pro are Bluetooth 5.3 and WiFi 6E support. IPad Air uses Touch ID as opposed to the iPad Pro coming with Face ID. That includes the second-generation Apple Pencil, Magic Keyboard, and Smart Keyboard Folio. IPad Air works with all the same great Apple accessories as the iPad Pro. Meanwhile, HDR brightness up to 1600 nits is only available on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, not the 11-inch Pro or 10.9-inch iPad Air. New iPad Pro offers clever ‘hover’ feature for Apple Pencil, here’s how it works.The biggest differences are you only get ProMotion (up to 120Hz refresh rates) with the iPad Pro display and you only get Apple Pencil Hover with the M2 iPad Pro. Both displays are fully laminated and have Apple’s anti-reflective coating. It’s almost exactly the same Liquid Retina display as the 11-inch iPad Pro (ok, technically 0.1″ smaller 😅). With the iPad Air screen, you’re getting a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display with True Tone and P3 wide color. Thunderbolt and 16GB RAM with the iPad Pro will likely only be tempting for professionals or those who aren’t price-sensitive. However, the vast majority of users will likely find the iPad Air with an M1 and 8GB RAM to be more than powerful enough for years to come. Note: 128, 256 and 512GB models have 8GB RAM, 1TB and 2TB models have 16GB RAM. That delivers up to an 18% faster CPU, 35% faster GPU (10-core vs 8-core), and a 2x boost in memory bandwidth from 50GB/s to 100GB/s.īut three other advantages the iPad Pro holds over the iPad Air – in this category – are Thunderbolt support, 16GB RAM on the 1TB and 2TB models, and more storage options.
#IPAD PRO M2 GEEKBENCH UPGRADE#
The main performance difference is the upgrade from an M1 to M2 chip for the new iPad Pro. For all the comparison charts below, the 11″ M2 iPad Pro is on the left, 11″ M1 iPad Pro is in the middle, and M1 iPad Air is on the right.
