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The result for iPad Pro is tepid, with performance just beating the Nexus 9 and its Tegra K1. The benchmark has two performance modules, which give you an idea of how fast the device would be in web browsing and email. It isnвЂ™t even far ahead of the tablet pack.В The worst performer for x86 is the budget Surface 3 with its Atom X7-z8700. In TabletMark V3, the iPad ProВ doesnвЂ™t look quite as threatening, does it? Even the Intel Haswell Core i5-4300u in the two-year old Surface Pro 3 easily outpaces the A9X here. HereвЂ™s how the iPad Pro fares.Д«APCOвЂ™s TabletMarket V3 doesnвЂ™t look quite as dire as Geek Bench 3. The test runs in real time, which can take a few hours on some devices.

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While Geek Bench 3 attempts to create what its makers think is an accurate measure of CPU performance using seconds-long вЂњreal worldвЂќ algorithms, BAPCoвЂ™s approach is actually more вЂњreal world.вЂќ BAPCoвЂ™s consortium of mostly hardware makers set out to create workloads across all the different platforms that would simulate what a person does, such as actually editing a photo with HDR, browsing the web, or sending email.Д«ecause thereвЂ™s no universal app that runs in Windows, Windows RT, Android and iOS, BAPCO set out and custom- created apps that did the same thing with the same interface across all platforms.В Indeed, when you watch it run on the platforms, it looks like someone is using an application on all three doing the same task on all three.ДЄ white paper on the benchmark discloses the approach as well as the libraries, compilers and APIs used in the test. So how do all the devices stack up in other benchmarks? First up is BAPCoвЂ™s TabletMark V3. The iPad Pro loses a little ground in the multi-core Geek Bench 3 result, but zowie! Goodbye, Intel ThatвЂ™s why I think the single-core performance is more meaningful. Why? IвЂ™m not sure, but the Intel chipsвЂ™ Hyper-Threading resource management could be a factor. The iPad in multi-core performance is on a par with the older Haswell-based Surface Pro 3, but it loses to the newer Skylake-based Surface Pro 4.

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The only OS that was out of date was my corporate-issue Windows 8.1 box with its 3.4GHz Core i7-2600, which I threw in for kicks.ДЄlthough I think it matters less, IвЂ™ll hit you with the results from Geek Bench 3 for multi-core too. ItвЂ™s uncomfortably close to that Core i7-6600U in the far pricier top-end Surface Book, too.ДЇor the record: Almost all of the tests in this section were run within the last few days, with the latest OSes and updates applied. That iPad Pro in single-core performance (which is a good metric to use to judge across platforms where some chips have more cores) is every bit as fast as the CPU in the newest mid-range Core i5 Surface Pro 4 in Geek Bench 3.

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If you peep at the chart below, you can see what got people in a tizzy.ДЇan boys have used Geek Bench 3вЂ™s performance results to write screeds that the x86-based PC (and Mac) are officially goners. The creators of Geek Bench 3 have stated their goals are to create a cross-platform test that isolates the CPU as much as possible, using algorithms that it believes are valid for chip performance. Browser-based benchmarks are hardly the best tools on the PC either. On the iPad Pro the browsers are pretty much the same, as Apple makes all use its highly optimized rendering engine.

If you like to test hardware, you know the weakness of the last two tests: A browser test isnвЂ™t a test of the CPU/SoC, itвЂ™s a test of the chip plus the browser and OS optimizations underneath it. This limited data set had the faithful buzzing that the end was nigh for x86.

Many of those conclusions were based on performance results from the popular multi-platform Geek Bench 3 benchmark, as well as browser-based benchmarks such as MozillaвЂ™s Kraken and GoogleвЂ™s Octane 2.0. What started the вЂњIntel and its CPUs are doomedвЂќ talk were benchmarks showing the A9X SoC in the iPad Pro overpowering IntelвЂ™s older Haswell chips and even its newest Skylake CPUs.

My battery of tests shows that in some things, it ainвЂ™t that fast.

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Far from it.Д«efore this turns into a flame-fest, let me say this: The iPad Pro is shockingly fast, as MacworldвЂ™s review drives home, and Apple has again worked its mastery of hardware, software and virtually unlimited resources to build an amazingly fast chip for the iPad Pro. The PC is dead, and so is the Mac.В Killed by the more powerful iPad Pro.В At least thatвЂ™s what some tech writers proclaimed after AppleвЂ™s latest iPad Pro wonder hit the streets.Д«ut is the iPad Pro really a PC killer?В After days of poking and prodding, I can safely say Hell no.

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