Apple’s A14 performance spotted on the Geekbench database with leading positing (iPad Air 4) of about 12571 points. People and rumors used to believe that with the A13 bionic comparison the new chip would not bring significant performance improvement.
Following the competitors such as Snapdragon 865, Snapdragon 865 Plus and Exynos 990, A14 is still leaks in grabs the top position and scores higher on GPU.
According to the running score, Apple’s latest SoC is ahead of all custom chips released by Apple so far, including chips tailored for the 2018 and 2020 iPad Pro models.
A14 Bionic (iPad Air 4): 12571
A12Z Bionic (2020 iPad Pro): 11665
A12X Bionic (2018 iPad Pro): 10860
A13 Bionic (iPhone 11): 7308
A12 Bionic (iPad Air 3): 5242
As you can see above, there is a huge difference in scores between A14 and A13, which is quite surprising, because when Apple showed off the iPad Air 4, the company only provided a comparison with A12, not A13. But please note that the real performance we will see after the iPad Air 4 will go on the market.
The A14 chip has 42% better performance than the A12 chip in single-core and 48% better in multi-core — which can be considered a great improvement for those upgrading from an iPad Air 3. Compared to the iPhone 11’s A13 Bionic chip, the A14 chip is about 20% faster in single-core (1327) and 28% faster in multi-core (3286).