Apple’s new iPad mini is powered by the A20 Pro chip, bringing one of the biggest performance jumps ever seen in the compact tablet.
Built using Apple’s latest 2-nanometer process, A20 Pro features up to a 6-core CPU and 7-core GPU, with Neural Accelerators built into each GPU core.
Apple says the chip delivers up to 60 percent faster multithreaded CPU performance, up to 2.7x faster graphics, and up to 4.5x faster AI performance compared with the previous-generation iPad mini.
The graphics architecture also supports dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated mesh shading, and ray tracing, aimed at improving gaming, 3D rendering, and other graphics-heavy workloads.
Memory bandwidth has more than doubled, while the 512GB configuration adds a Dual 16-core Neural Engine that Apple says doubles processing power for more advanced on-device AI tasks.
The A20 Pro is one of the headline upgrades in the new iPad mini, alongside its OLED display and redesigned body.
Apple detailed the performance figures in its official announcement.