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GSMArena team, 09 November 2012

One for the road


Apple iPad mini review: One for the road

  • Comments (132)
  • iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular
  • iPad mini Wi-Fi

5. Synthetic benchmarks
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, hardware and controls
  3. 3. Display and handling
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Synthetic benchmarks
  6. 6. Siri, Facebook and Twitter integration, contacts
  7. 7. Loudspeaker, iMessage, email
  8. 8. Gallery, video and music players, audio quality
  9. 9. Camera and video recording, image and video comparison
  10. 10. Connectivity, Safari
  11. 11. App Store, iTunes Store, apps and organizer
  12. 12. Conclusion
  13.  
  14. Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular specification
  15. Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi specification
  16. Review comments (132)

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Synthetic benchmarks

The iPad mini is driven by the Apple A5 chipset, which has two 1 GHz Cortex-A9 cores and a dual-core PowerVR SGX543 graphics chip. The amount of on-board RAM is 512 MB.

We can't say we're thrilled with this kind of hardware - it is around two years old now and not up to speed compared to the quad-core Tegra inside the Nexus 7. The amount of RAM isn't impressive either, given that even the iPhone reached the 1 GB milestone already.

So without further ado, here go the benchmarks.

We start off with Geekbench, which puts the chipset through all kinds of stress tests like processing per core, graphics performance, memory performance, etc. The iPad mini hits last place here, behind its hardware twin the iPad 2.

Geekbench 2

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    2000
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    1845
  • Apple iPad 4
    1756
  • LG Optimus G
    1723
  • HTC One X (Tegra 3)
    1634
  • Apple iPhone 5
    1601
  • Google Nexus 7
    1444
  • Apple iPad 3
    791
  • Apple iPad 2
    781
  • Apple iPad mini
    745

GLBenchmark focuses on the dual-core PowerVR GPU inside the iPad mini. The Egypt 2.5 off-screen test shows the GPU's raw power as it pushes a preset amount of pixels and ignores the screen resolution. The iPad mini got 14.5 frames per second, which isn't anything special in tablet terms but did beat the Samsung Galaxy S III and HTC One X.It's no surprise that the iPad 2 got an identical result here.

GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p off-screen)

Higher is better

  • Apple iPad 4
    51.8
  • LG Optimus G
    29
  • Apple iPhone 5
    27
  • Apple iPad 3
    25.6
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    17
  • Apple iPad mini
    14.5
  • Apple iPad 2
    14.5
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    13
  • Google Nexus 7
    9.1
  • HTC One X (Tegra 3)
    9

The on-screen test shows what framerate the CPU averages on the screen's native resolution, in this case 1024 x 768 pixels. The low native resolution helped the iPad mini do 24.3 fps, extending its advantage over the Android flagships, which have more pixels to deal with.

GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt on-screen

Higher is better

  • Apple iPad 4
    41.5
  • Apple iPhone 5
    39.4
  • LG Optimus G
    33.6
  • Apple iPad mini
    24.3
  • Apple iPad 2
    23.2
  • Apple iPad 3
    21.3
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    17.3
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    14.1
  • HTC One X (Tegra 3)
    14.1
  • Google Nexus 7
    13.6

We move on to browser-based benchmarks. SunSpider and BrowserMark focus on JavaScript and HTML 5 performance. The iPad mini is running the latest iOS 6 so it should produce fine results here.

SunSpider showed an okay score for the iPad mini, just behind the ICS-running LG Optimus G. In BrowserMark the iPad mini managed to beat the LG superphone but didn't come close to the iPhone 5 and iPad 4.

SunSpider

Lower is better

  • Apple iPad 4
    880.1
  • Apple iPhone 5
    915
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    972
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    1304
  • Meizu MX 4-core
    1312
  • LG Optimus G
    1353
  • Apple iPad mini
    1432
  • Apple iPad 3
    1436.9
  • HTC One X (Tegra 3)
    1468
  • Google Nexus 7
    1703
  • Apple iPad 2
    1773

BrowserMark

Higher is better

  • Apple iPad 4
    195379
  • Apple iPhone 5
    189937
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    185034
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    158953
  • Meizu MX 4-core
    158404
  • HTC One X (Tegra 3)
    140270
  • Google Nexus 7
    131788
  • Apple iPad 3
    126817
  • Apple iPad mini
    123300
  • Apple iPad 2
    122976
  • LG Optimus G
    118126
Next Page » 6. Siri, Facebook and Twitter integration, contacts
5. Synthetic benchmarks
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, hardware and controls
  3. 3. Display and handling
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Synthetic benchmarks
  6. 6. Siri, Facebook and Twitter integration, contacts
  7. 7. Loudspeaker, iMessage, email
  8. 8. Gallery, video and music players, audio quality
  9. 9. Camera and video recording, image and video comparison
  10. 10. Connectivity, Safari
  11. 11. App Store, iTunes Store, apps and organizer
  12. 12. Conclusion
  13.  
  14. Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular specification
  15. Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi specification
  16. Review comments (132)

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  • iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular
  • iPad mini Wi-Fi

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