iPad Air (3rd generation)

A12 Bionic, March 2019

Scores

Single-core

No data

Multi-core

No data

GPU (Metal)

No data

Keynote claim, measured

“With the A12 Bionic chip with Apple’s Neural Engine, the new iPad Air delivers a 70 percent boost in performance and twice the graphics capability, and the advanced Retina display with True Tone technology is nearly 20 percent larger with over half a million more pixels.”

Compares CPU and GPU (Metal) with the A8X in the iPad Air 2. No baseline named, read as the previous generation.

A general performance figure, checked as a CPU claim.

iPad Air (3rd generation) announcement, March 2019, Apple Newsroom, iPad Air (3rd generation) announcement, March 2019

CPU

Claimed +70%

No data

GPU

Claimed 2×

No data

iPad Air single-core, by generation

DeviceSingle-coreChange over the previous generation
Air, 2013No dataFirst in this line
Air 2, 2014No data
Air 3rd gen, 2019, this deviceNo data
Air 4th gen, 2020No data
Air M1, 2022No data
Air M2, 2024No data
Air M3, 2025No data
Air M4, 2026No data

Against other devices

The iPad Air (3rd generation) has no scores to compare.