Three years since its last update, the new iPad mini is now in a performance class of its own. Where there once were a few Android tablets that came close to giving the iPad mini a run for its computing power, there are now none.
The new iPad mini is powered by the same A12 Bionic chip inside of the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR. As you may have read in our reviews for the iPhones, the A12 Bionic is insanely fast. Even the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon chips in the best Android tablets don’t come close to what Apple’s custom silicon is capable of. And the only mobile chip that’s even faster is the A12X Bionic inside of the iPad Pros.
To confirm the new iPad mini’s power, I ran my usual Geekbench 4 benchmarks to see where the new iPad mini slots in. As expected, the new iPad mini is just as powerful as the XS, XS Max and XR, scoring 4,817 on single-core and 11,483 on multi-core. These scores match Apple’s claims of up to 3x faster CPU performance compared to the iPad mini 4.
The A12 Bionic also comes with greatly improved graphics performance compared to the A8 chip inside of the iPad mini 4. Apple says GPU performance is up to 9x faster. I can’t verify this increase, but I can say 3D games run great on the iPad mini. Big games such as Asphalt 9 (which keeps getting better and prettier with new updates), Fortnite, and Skyforce Reloaded all played great. The back of the new iPad mini did get just a little bit warm at times, but never hot to the touch.
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