Geekbench scores, new iPad Air, and the 16″ 2019 MacBook Pro

Hartley Charlton, MacRumors:

Benchmarks supposedly for Apple’s A14 Bionic processor in the iPad Air 4, first spotted by Twitter user “Ice Universe,” reveal that the A14 offers significant performance improvements over the iPhone 11’s A13 Bionic.

Here’s a link to that Geekbench 5 result.

  • 1583 Single-Core Score
  • 4198 Multi-Core Score

Note that the multi-core score was computed on a 6 core device.

Now check out the Geekbench 5 results for the 16 inch 2019 MacBook Pro:

  • 928 Single-Core Score
  • 5934 Multi-Core Score

This is an 8-core device. With that in mind, scroll and compare all the various tests. The A14 Bionic in the new iPad Air kicks some serious butt.

Is this a fair comparison? For a strict CPU vs CPU comparison, seems like it does offer a level of insight. And makes me hopeful that the Arm-based Macs coming our way will significantly raise the bar for Mac performance.