They are two different animals, though there is clearly some overlap in capability. I am not implying that the iPad Pro can replace the MacBook Pro. Yet the laptop is only slightly faster running CPU intensive apps and slower running the GPU intensive apps. Think about it: The top configured 2017 MacBook Pro 13-inch costs roughly 3 times more than the top configured 2017 iPad Pro.

And in the CPU intensive tests, the 2017 iPad Pros were 'gnawing on the heels' of the MacBook Pro. I was struck by how close the results were when I performed CPU and GPU centric benchmarks that run under both iOS and macOS.Īs you can see from the graphs, the 2017 iPad Pro actually ran some of the benchmarks faster - especially the GPU intensive ones. I stumbled upon the idea of comparing the 2017 iPad Pro to the top performing MacBook Pro 13-inch while re-running benchmarks on the previous models of both. ( HIGHEST number in Frames per Second = FASTEST ) Both Manhattan and T-Rex animations were run in 1080p Offscreen mode.

It is a cross-platform intensive graphics performance analysis with game-like content, low-level tests measure specific graphics performance aspects (Driver Overhead 2, ALU 2, Tessellation, Texturing). There is now a GPU Compute test for Metal. The OVERALL score is a combination of integer, floating-point, and memory performance. IPad Pro 12.9 2015 = 2015 iPad Pro 12.9 inch (iPad6,8), 2.26GHz A9X processor, 128GB flash storage, 4G of memory IPad Pro 10.5 2017 = 2017 iPad Pro 9.7 inch (iPad7,4), 2.39GHz A10X processor, 512GB flash storage, 4G of memory RMBP 13in 2016 = 2016 MacBook Retina 13-inch, 3.1GHz Dual-Core i7 processor, Intel Iris Graphics 550 GPU, 16G of 2133 MHz LPDDR3 memory, 1TB PCIe based flash storage RMBP 13in 2017 = 2017 MacBook Retina 13-inch, 3.5GHz Dual-Core i7 processor, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 GPU, 16G of 2133 MHz LPDDR3 memory, 1TB PCIe based flash storage After all, we were curious how the performance stacked up against the MacBook Pros with a similar sized display to the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. Because there are benchmarks that run under iOS and macOS, we decided to include the laptop in the comparison. In parallel, we were updating benchmarks for the 13-inch MacBook Pro. We started out to compare previous versions of the iPad Pro with the new releases. Posted June 14th, 2017 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist

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