On March 4, 2026, the new iPad Air equipped with the M4 chip was officially released, with its first batch of Geekbench performance test data promptly unveiled. The data shows that the new iPad Air scored 3714 in the Geekbench 6 single-core test and 12296 in the multi-core test. For comparison, the 11-inch M4 iPad Pro scored approximately 3691 in the single-core test and 13663 in the multi-core test. The single-core scores are close, but the iPad Air falls slightly behind by about 10% in the multi-core test due to its fewer cores. Official specifications indicate that the M4 chip in the iPad Air features an 8-core CPU (3 performance cores + 5 efficiency cores), while the iPad Pro utilizes a CPU with up to 10 cores (4 performance cores + 6 efficiency cores).
