Apple's new iPad Pro benchmarks demonstrate impressive tablet AI performance

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If a single set of M4 benchmarks can be believed, the new higher-end configurations of the iPad Pro have a lead on the MacBook Pro with M3 processor for AI tasks -- but not by much.

Apple's new iPad Pro

A new benchmark for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with M4 and 10 cores has been posted to GeekBench overnight. In it, the assorted artificial intelligence workloads have perhaps been measured for the first time -- but we're skeptical, considering that the benchmark appears to have been run on iOS 18.

If accurate, the score of 9234 on the "Core ML Neural Engine Inference" for iPad Pro is decent. It is not the best from an Apple Product.

Screencap taken on May 8 of iPad Pro benchmarks

The inference result comes in at about 10% faster than the fan-cooled M3 MacBook Pro. However, the M3 Max version of the 16-inch MacBook Pro run a 16-core configuration comes in at about 11,080. The 14-core 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 Max comes in at about 9200 at a very similar price point to the 10-core iPad Pro.

Apple's M3 MacBook Air isn't fan-cooled, and hits a inference score of about 6800.

A compilation of Geekbench Core ML Neural Engine Interface benchmarks

Going back to the iPad Pro lineup, the M2 12.9-inch iPad Pro came in at about 7400. The M1 12.9-inch iPad is much further behind at about 3400.

As we mentioned, the provenance of the data isn't clear, and there does not appear to be an accompanying CPU performance benchmark yet.

Apple's iOS 18 hasn't escaped into the wild which could be an indication of a fake. If the benchmark is legit, it may actually be lower than it could be. Apple's internal iOS versions in use the month before WWDC generally have lots of telemetry bogging down system performance, and aren't fully stable.

Regardless, time will tell soon enough. Customers who ordered early will start getting machines on May 15. Early reviews are expected on May 13.




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Xed

globby said:

What users want to know is, does this mean Apple's dictation will no longer be terrible? That it will finally output that makes sense grammatically and contextually?

Or does this just mean it will produce more garbage dictation but much faster than before?

I suppose if you and one other person want to know this then it's technically "users" but you make it sound like that's the key concern with everyone. Personally, as someone that uses diction often, I can't say that I've ever had an issue with it worth remembering. I even still use the original setup of the double tapping of the fn key to initiate dictation  despite macOS and my Mac having a dedicated key on the top row as the default.

gregoriusm

Using my iPhone, I find the dictation quite good, with words, grammar, and punctuation. Speaking at a reasonable rate and clearly, obviously, makes a difference, as with any dictation input method. I have very few problems with Siri dictation. 

libertyandfree

Xed said:

globby said:

What users want to know is, does this mean Apple's dictation will no longer be terrible? That it will finally output that makes sense grammatically and contextually?

Or does this just mean it will produce more garbage dictation but much faster than before?

I suppose if you and one other person want to know this then it's technically "users" but you make it sound like that's the key concern with everyone. Personally, as someone that uses diction often, I can't say that I've ever had an issue with it worth remembering. I even still use the original setup of the double tapping of the fn key to initiate dictation  despite macOS and my Mac having a dedicated key on the top row as the default.

Wow you seem to be the rare breed since I do not use it either since it makes so many errors.  I expect Siri to be able to accurately record commands and words at a low error rate of 1-2% but my experience is that’s it’s about 10x higher than that and that makes it slightly better than worthless.   It’s very disappointing that after all these years Siri is still not very good, seems like it was a project Apple lost interest in which is a shame since they had a large lead at one point.   Hopefully with Apple’s new committed to AI Siri may finally become what it could have been all along and even better. 

danox

libertyandfree said:

Xed said:

globby said:

What users want to know is, does this mean Apple's dictation will no longer be terrible? That it will finally output that makes sense grammatically and contextually?

Or does this just mean it will produce more garbage dictation but much faster than before?

I suppose if you and one other person want to know this then it's technically "users" but you make it sound like that's the key concern with everyone. Personally, as someone that uses diction often, I can't say that I've ever had an issue with it worth remembering. I even still use the original setup of the double tapping of the fn key to initiate dictation  despite macOS and my Mac having a dedicated key on the top row as the default.

Wow you seem to be the rare breed since I do not use it either since it makes so many errors.  I expect Siri to be able to accurately record commands and words at a low error rate of 1-2% but my experience is that’s it’s about 10x higher than that and that makes it slightly better than worthless.   It’s very disappointing that after all these years Siri is still not very good, seems like it was a project Apple lost interest in which is a shame since they had a large lead at one point.   Hopefully with Apple’s new committed to AI Siri may finally become what it could have been all along and even better. 

On a iPhone 11 Pro and a iPad Pro third generation no problem with dictation 90% of the time.

FileMakerFeller

My guess is that the extra GPU oomph required to drive the new display is (not coincidentally) the primary reason for the improvement from previous models.

beowulfschmidt

danox said:

libertyandfree said:

Xed said:

globby said:

What users want to know is, does this mean Apple's dictation will no longer be terrible? That it will finally output that makes sense grammatically and contextually?

Or does this just mean it will produce more garbage dictation but much faster than before?

I suppose if you and one other person want to know this then it's technically "users" but you make it sound like that's the key concern with everyone. Personally, as someone that uses diction often, I can't say that I've ever had an issue with it worth remembering. I even still use the original setup of the double tapping of the fn key to initiate dictation  despite macOS and my Mac having a dedicated key on the top row as the default.

Wow you seem to be the rare breed since I do not use it either since it makes so many errors.  I expect Siri to be able to accurately record commands and words at a low error rate of 1-2% but my experience is that’s it’s about 10x higher than that and that makes it slightly better than worthless.   It’s very disappointing that after all these years Siri is still not very good, seems like it was a project Apple lost interest in which is a shame since they had a large lead at one point.   Hopefully with Apple’s new committed to AI Siri may finally become what it could have been all along and even better. 

On a iPhone 11 Pro and a iPad Pro third generation no problem with dictation 90% of the time.

To be fair to Libertyandfree, even though they make it sound like it's so horrible with the hyperbole in their post, 10x 1-2% error rate is about the same as 90% correct.

My own experience with Siri dictation suggests the 10ish % error rate is about correct.  My dominant English dialect is Northeast US, specifically Western NY, mixed with a smidge of coastal NC, and good dollop of Midwest.  Error rate increases if I'm tired, or sick, or impaired somehow.

danox

beowulfschmidt said:

danox said:

libertyandfree said:

Xed said:

globby said:

What users want to know is, does this mean Apple's dictation will no longer be terrible? That it will finally output that makes sense grammatically and contextually?

Or does this just mean it will produce more garbage dictation but much faster than before?

I suppose if you and one other person want to know this then it's technically "users" but you make it sound like that's the key concern with everyone. Personally, as someone that uses diction often, I can't say that I've ever had an issue with it worth remembering. I even still use the original setup of the double tapping of the fn key to initiate dictation  despite macOS and my Mac having a dedicated key on the top row as the default.

Wow you seem to be the rare breed since I do not use it either since it makes so many errors.  I expect Siri to be able to accurately record commands and words at a low error rate of 1-2% but my experience is that’s it’s about 10x higher than that and that makes it slightly better than worthless.   It’s very disappointing that after all these years Siri is still not very good, seems like it was a project Apple lost interest in which is a shame since they had a large lead at one point.   Hopefully with Apple’s new committed to AI Siri may finally become what it could have been all along and even better. 

On a iPhone 11 Pro and a iPad Pro third generation no problem with dictation 90% of the time.

To be fair to Libertyandfree, even though they make it sound like it's so horrible with the hyperbole in their post, 10x 1-2% error rate is about the same as 90% correct.

My own experience with Siri dictation suggests the 10ish % error rate is about correct.  My dominant English dialect is Northeast US, specifically Western NY, mixed with a smidge of coastal NC, and good dollop of Midwest.  Error rate increases if I'm tired, or sick, or impaired somehow.

True, I can only wish that I had a iPad combined with Pages, Notability, Omni Outliner or Goodnotes back in the day when I was in school. Writing those term papers would better and more fun. The power available today to those that know how.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8R2T1cNP-k.   Molina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ7flQhzvnQ.  Fibi 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yO9lWrke9oE  GoodNotes