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Hey guys, this is Austin and today I’m here with a speed test between the
brand new iPad mini and full sized iPad 4. With two very different screen
sizes and internals let’s take a look to see how the new iPads stack up.
My first test is Geekbench, an app that measures the overall performance of
everything from smartphones to PCs. The iPad 4 is rocking a newer and
powerful Apple A6X chip which is clocked higher and has twice as much RAM
as the iPad mini which gives it a big advantage here with a final score of 1765
compared to 753 on the mini. Next up we have Sunspider which will give you
a good idea of how each tablet will handle a complicated website using
Safari. This doesn’t take into account the different screen sizes which
definitely favors the iPad 4 for giving you more screen real estate to work
with but the numbers don’t lie. Here again the iPad smokes the mini being
nearly twice as fast. To test gaming performance I used GLBenchmark which is
a great way to test the graphical horsepower. It runs through a complex Egypt
scene which stress tests even the most powerful of tablets. As you can see
here this is really where the iPad 4 shines with its quad core graphics able to
punch out awesome results even while pushing all the pixels on that Retina
Display. The iPad mini is no slouch here either with results on par with most
tablets out today. To make things a bit fairer I took the screen size out of the
equation and ran it again in the off screen mode. The iPad 4 averaged 50
frames per second while the iPad mini pulls in just 14. While on paper the
iPad 4 is faster in practically all ways the iPad mini does need less power to
work with the smaller screen and of course you’re paying quite a bit less. If
you’re interested in winning an iPad mini be sure to check out my giveaway
here and if you enjoyed don’t forget to hit up that Like button! Anyway I will
catch you guys in the next one!