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Apple has quietly changed the listed number of GPU cores on the iPad Air's M2 GPU from 10 to nine cores, and Metal's benchmark tests show that the nine-core specification is accurate.
The iPad Air M2 was originally announced to feature a 10-core GPU in its first press release on May 7, 2024. The press release remains uncorrected, as does the iPad Air support page and all product listings in Apple Stores outside the US as of June 1, 2024.
The fix, first spotted by 9to5 Mac on Saturday, is likely , will be the true number of cores, since the original characteristics, oddly enough, turned out to be erroneous. Geekbench Metal testing of the M2 iPad Air showed a score of 41,095, compared to the M2 Pro's 10-core GPU which scored 45,195.
The difference of about 10 percent is explained by the absence of the 10th core in the M2 iPad Air GPU. The adjusted number of cores in the M2 chips used in the iPad Air is the same in both the 11-inch and 13-inch models.
The M2 chip in iPad Air models is likely a “binned” version of the 10-core chip with one of the GPU cores disabled. In many cases, this is done to increase processor performance and so that you don't have to throw away a chip with one dead GPU core.
The data fix will likely roll out to other Apple pages and international sites in the near future.
This also means that the M2 iPad Air is the only machine Apple sells with the nine-core M2 GPU.
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