The Apple iPad Air 11 (2024) and iPad Air 13 (2024) were announced a month ago with one key upgrade over the 2022 Air – the Apple M2 chipset replaced the M1. However, it turns out that M2 is not quite what we originally thought and what Apple originally announced.
The specs page on apple.com lists a 9-core GPU, while the press release published on May 7 still reads that the “M2 chip brings another big boost in performance to iPad Air, featuring a faster 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU”.
Details on iPad Air’s M2 chip from apple.com
Indeed, looking at GFXBench Wild Life Extreme Unlimited,…
