Apple’s new OLED iPad mini, which carries the A20 Pro chip and is set to reach customers on November 6, has already appeared in Geekbench 7. The early result gives a clear picture of what the compact tablet can do before it goes on sale.
The submission lists the iPad19,2, which corresponds to the Wi-Fi + Cellular version. It records 3,879 points in single-core performance and 9,870 points in multi-core performance. The exposed CPU configuration has five cores — two high-performance cores and three efficiency cores — with the performance cores running at 4.93GHz. That suggests the benchmarked unit is one of the 128GB or 256GB models, since those variants use a binned A20 Pro with one efficiency core switched off. The 512GB model retains the full six-core CPU. The listing also reveals 12GB of RAM, a detail Apple typically keeps out of its official specifications.
Compared with the iPhone 18 Pro Max, which has the full six-core A20 Pro, the iPad mini lands slightly behind in single-core work at roughly a 4% gap, and about 14% behind in multi-core performance. The missing efficiency core explains much of that difference. Still, this is a major jump over the previous iPad mini, which scored 2,638 single-core and 7,103 multi-core. The new model is around 47% faster in single-core and 39% faster in multi-core.
The picture gets more interesting when the iPad mini is measured against Apple’s larger tablets. The M5 iPad Pro 13 scores 3,580 single-core and 15,126 multi-core, meaning the mini leads in single-core by about 8%, while the iPad Pro is around 53% ahead in multi-core tasks. Against the M4 iPad Air 13, which posts 3,206 single-core and 12,686 multi-core, the mini is about 21% faster in single-core, but the Air holds a 29% advantage in multi-core performance. Once more, having more cores gives the bigger Apple silicon tablets a clear edge in threaded workloads.
The iPad mini (2026) starts at $699, €749, or £699, and pre-orders are already open.
