Apple iPad Pro Benchmarked: It's A Performance Beast, Well Above iPhone, iPad And Samsung

I spent the last week with the Apple iPad Pro and thoroughly reviewed it here. I couldn't help myself but run a few preliminary benchmarks while I was at it and wanted to share those as well. Net-net, the Apple iPad Pro is a performance beast among mobile devices. The Apple iPhone 6s Plus already laps pretty much every mobile device out right now and the Apple iPad Pro essentially doubles GPU performance and improves CPU performance by roughly 30%. Here are some preliminary highlights:

• iPad Pro outperforms iPhone 6s Plus up to 30% on CPU-related benchmarks
• iPad Pro outperforms iPhone 6s Plus up to 2X on GPU-related benchmark
• iPad Pro outperforms iPad Air up to 2-3X on CPU-related benchmarks
• iPad Pro outperforms iPad Air up to 2-6X on GPU-related benchmarks
• iPad Pro outperforms Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ up to 350% (average of 150%) on CPU-related benchmarks
• iPad Pro outperforms Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ conservatively up to 500% on GPU-related benchmarks

Why is this happening?

• iPads and iPhones use a custom SoC and custom CPU core. Samsung has a custom SoC, but an off the shelf CPU core from ARM Holdings .
• I believe iPad Pro could have one more CPU core than iPhone 6s Plus
• I believe iPad Pro has many more GPU compute units than iPhone 6s Plus

You can find all the gory details here. I will update this as I get more information and research some of the anomalies I found. Notes:

• MI&S still researching GeekBench MC to evaluate whether it accurately reflects mobile software and multi-CPU cores.
• Basemark Metal would run on iPad but would not complete the test.
• 3DMARK Slingshot in process of being run
• Still working through issues on GFXBench 3.1.17
• Samsung GFXbench scoreas abnormally low. Will reverify.
• TBT= to be tested
• DNR= does not run
• NA= not available in the app store