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The bottom line is that the GPU on the A17 Pro AP used on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max has six GPU cores. That compares to the five GPU cores on the A17 Pro AP. This version of the A17 Pro SoC might not have the same GPU performance as the A17 Pro found in the iPhone 15 Pro series, but you might not be able to notice the difference. Apple will end up saving some money by using the chip-binning process to obtain the chipsets for the new iPad mini tablet.
Apple will release the iPad mini (A17 Pro) on October 23rd. | Image credit-Apple
A Geekbench benchmark test was run on the iPad mini (A17 Pro) and as we told you yesterday, the tablet does support 8GB of RAM which means that it will be equipped with the Apple Intelligence AI initiative. The previous model, the iPad mini 6, was released in September 2021 carrying only 4GB of RAM.
GPU testing on Geekbench showed the iPad mini (A17 Pro), using the five-core GPU on the A17 Pro, had a benchmark score of 25,600 compared to the 20,200 tally generated by the GPU on the iPad mini 6 powered by the A15 Bionic. The iPhone 15 Pro Max, using the A17 Pro AP with a six-core GPU, scored 27957 slightly edging out the new iPad mini.