The new iPad Air (2024) models use that same M2 chip (the previous Air had the M1). This week Apple launched new iPad Pros and new iPad Airs – yes, plural,.
This week Apple launched new iPad Pros and new iPad Airs – yes, plural, the Air now comes in 11” and 13” sizes like the Pro models. Also interesting is that the Air is in a sense an “iPad Pro SE”, i.e. the 2024 models use the Apple M2 chip that the 2022 Pros used, while the 2022 Air had an M1 like the 2021 Pros.
Is this starting to get confusing? Let’s put aside model numbers and look at early performance benchmarks from the new iPad Pros, which use the brand new Apple M4 chip, and compare them to 2022 Pros. The Geekbench database doesn’t have the new Airs just yet, but the 2022 Pros are a fine substitute – as we noted above, both use the M2.
In case you missed it, the Apple iPad Pro 11 (2024) and iPad Pro 13 (2024) use two different versions of the M4 chip and have different RAM capacities based on storage.
