Lots and lots of numbers in this review, packed with easy to read comparison charts. This iPad Pro comes out on top all the way through.
There’s a battery life comparison (based on continuous web surfing), with the iPad Pro lasting more than 13 hours, compared with the Surface Pro 6 at a bit over 9 hours. Same with GeekBench 4 numbers, with the iPad Pro multi-core at 17995 and the Surface Pro 6 at 13,025.
But scroll down to that video transcoding chart. Whoa. The Surface Pro 6 took 31 minutes to transcode a 12-minute 4K video clip. The MacBook Pro fared a bit better, just under 26 minutes. But the new iPad Pro? 7 minutes, 47 seconds.
That is one blazingly fast machine.
… that makes me suspect something is up somewhere, because the IPP shouldn’t be that fast, comparatively.
(Comparable? Sure, totally believable.
*Four times as fast*? No. Not plausible.)
My suspicion is that the Rush app is much better optimized for iOS than for Windows or x86, since Adobe really expects pro-grade users on x86 to be using The Real Version Of Premiere, not Rush.
Another possibility is that part of the secret sauce in the A12 chip is an extremely optimized hardware accelerator for video re-encoding?
Any way you cut it, the Ipad clocks an impressive time for downconverting 4k to 1080p.