iPad 4 Benchmarks Show 1.4GHz Dual Core Processor

John Poole from Primate Labs reports about fourth-generation iPad benchmarks appeared in their Geekbench database.

Confirming Apple’s claims, the iPad 4 benchmarks nearly twice as fast as the iPad 3. The new iPad model is based on an A6 chip that Apple first included in the iPhone 5. The processor in the iPad 4 is called the A6X, which means that it includes a quad-core graphics (versus triple-core) to help run the larger Retina display. The benchmarks also showed that the A6X chip runs at 1.4 GHz, a bit faster than the iPhone’s A6 processor clocked at 1.3GHz.

The RAM in the new iPad remains at 1GB, the same as the iPhone 5 and iPad 3.