It’s even better than Google’s Nexus 9 tablet

Oct 22, 2014 12:30 GMT  ·  By

Some customers will always put specs over functionality, and in some cases even above their needs. Techies will always prefer the most powerful devices that are available on the market and will always wait for benchmarks before making their purchase.

The same goes for the tablet market where competition is fierce between Android and iOS-powered slates. The fact that Apple and Google announced their new flagship tablets less than one week from each other says a lot about the importance both companies give to these products.

Unveiled about a week ago, Google’s Nexus 9 tablet was considered the most powerful tablet on the market until Apple announced the upcoming release of the iPad Air 2.

The Nexus 9 is armed with NVIDIA’s Tegra K1 (Denver) 64-bit chipset, which features two cores that are more powerful than any other chipsets with Cortex or Krait architecture.

The first benchmarks released online soon after the tablet’s announcement revealed amazing performance for a dual-core processor, surpassing NVIDIA Shield, Sony Xperia Z2 and LG G3 in the single-core tests.

In the multi-core benchmark, Nexus 9 was only second to NVIDIA Shield by a small margin. Bottom line is that NVIDIA did a great job designing its first custom processor that’s now known as Tegra K1.

And then the iPad Air 2 came and everyone forgot about the Nexus 9. Well, not everyone of course, but those who look into a device’s performance before making their purchase would definitely want Apple’s tablet instead of Google’s Nexus 9.

The iPad Air 2 uses a triple-core 64-bit A8X application processor

AppleInsider has just published what appears to be the first benchmark of the iPad Air 2 and results are stunningly better than any others tablet on the market, including Nexus 9.

Although the single core test has showed that both Nexus 9 and iPad Air 2 are on par when it comes to performance, the multi core test results are surprising.

Suffice to say, Apple’s iPad Air 2 simply crushed Google’s Nexus 9 tablet by a lot. While the Nexus 9 scored 3220 points in the multi core test, the iPad Air 2 managed to reach 4477 points.

This means that Apple’s tablet should be about 35% faster than Google’s when running apps and games that require more than one processor.

Oh well, given the fact that these are just raw numbers, people will probably be more interested to see how these tablets perform in real life and over a longer period of time. If you had to choose between the Nexus 9 and iPad Air 2, which one do you think would better fit your needs?