New iPad shows up on GeekBench, A14 chip has some powerful cores

Apple announced the iPad Air (2020) on September 15, but the tablet is yet to go on sale. What’s probably a pre-production unit has made it to GeekBench, showing us the performance of the new A14 Bionic chipset, also to be featured in the upcoming iPhone.

The A14’s CPU delivers mighty single-core performance – the 1583pts score is around 18% higher than what we have for the A13 in the iPhone 11 Pro. Crucially, it’s also way ahead of the preliminary figures we have rumored for next year’s Snapdragon 875 (1159pts) and Exynos 1000 (1159pts).

Alleged iPad Air (2020) on…