Apple iPad Air 2 Review: Should You Upgrade?
Performance: CPU & Web Browsing
Underneath the hood of the iPad Air 2 is a scorching fast custom A8X System-on-Chip (SoC) with a tri-core processor and six-core graphics, along with 2GB of RAM and, in this instance, 64GB of built-in storage. Spoiler alert -- the A8X chip is a beastly part, as we've already seen. It's also key in separating the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus from the iPad Air 2, leaving no mistake as to which mobile product packs the most performance punch. Let's have a look.
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Rightware's Browsermark test is another web-based performance analyzer. It focuses on page loading and resizing, conformance testing for HTML5, network speed, and performance in the context of JavaScript, HTML5, WebGL, Canvas, CSS3/3D, and more.
Given the number of different tests and the types of things being analyzed, the A8X plays a bigger role here than it does in SunSpider. As a result, the iPad Air 2 crushes the competition with a top score of 5,047, well above the closest competitor, which happens to be the original iPad Air with a score of 3,809.
