M4 iPad Professional vs Floor Professional comparability

On the heels of Apple’s M4 iPad Professional launching, Microsoft has debuted the eleventh version of the Floor Professional. Interested in what’s related and totally different between these two transportable gadgets? Be a part of alongside for a have a look at the M4 iPad Professional vs Floor Professional.

M4 iPad Professional vs Floor Professional

Efficiency

The brand new iPad is the primary Apple system to function the M4 chip. That goes up in opposition to the Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X within the new Floor Professional.

Whereas the Elite X chip options extra CPU and GPU cores, it seems just like the M4 is outperforming it in early benchmarks by fairly a bit for single-core efficiency and the 2 are practically tied for multi-core efficiency.

There are a number of areas the place the Snapdragon X Elite has extra uncooked energy like 45 trillion op/s for the neural processor vs 38 trillion for Apple’s Neural Engine, barely extra reminiscence bandwidth, and RAM going as much as 32GB vs 16GB for iPad Professional.

Nevertheless, as regular, Apple fine-tunes the M4 iPad Professional because it makes each the {hardware} and software program – getting extra efficiency out of fewer CPU and GPU cores, much less reminiscence, and many others.

The M4 iPad Professional additionally presents hardware-accelerated ray tracing and assist for hardware-accelerated 8K H.264, HEVC, ProREs, and ProRes RAW. That’s not true of the Snapdragon X Elite.

	13″ M4 iPad Professional	13″ Floor Professional
Chip	M4	Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite
Course of	3nm	4nm
CPU	9 or 10-core	12-core
CPU benchmarks	~3,700 single-core, ~14,000 multi-core	~2,400 single-core, ~14,000 multi-core
GPU	10-core	12-core
{Hardware}-accelerated 8K H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW assist	✅	❌
{Hardware}-accelerated ray tracing	✅	❌
Neural Engine	16-core (38 trillion op/s)	Qualcomm Hexagon NPU (45 trillion op/s)
Storage	256GB – 2TB	512GB – 1TB (detachable)
RAM	8 or 16GB	16 or 32GB
Reminiscence bandwidth	120GB/s	136GB/s
Mobile	5G (sub-6 GHz)	Coming fall 2024

A nicety of the Floor Professional, the SSD is detachable however no 5G mobile fashions but, Microsoft says they’re coming in fall 2024.

Show

The brand new M4 iPad Professional fashions transcend their predecessors with a brand new “Extremely Retina XDR Show” and it’s the primary to make use of Tandem OLED.

Apple says the advantages of the brand new OLED show are brighter specular highlights, deeper true blacks, higher element in shadows and low mild, and extra.

Each the smaller and bigger iPad Professional function the brand new OLED show which now you can improve the 1 or 2TB fashions with nano-texture show glass.

You additionally get brighter SDR content material as much as 1000 nits with the M4 iPad Professional fashions (600 nits for M2 iPad Professional SDR content material).

In distinction, the high-end Floor Professional presents a 13″ OLED panel but it surely’s not fairly as superior as Apple’s with a decrease brightness, smaller refresh price vary, no P3 broad shade, and extra.

	13″ M4 iPad Professional	13″ Floor Professional
Show	13″ Tandem OLED touchscreen	13″ OLED touchscreen
Decision	2752 x 2064	2880 x 1920
PPI (pixels per inch)	264	267
Show brightness	1000 nits SDR, 1000 nits max full display screen XDR, 1600 nits peak (HDR solely)	600
Adaptive show	“True Tone”	“Adaptive shade”
P3 broad shade	✅	❌
Refresh price	10-120Hz	60-120Hz
Anti-reflective and fingerprint-resistant coating	✅	–
Totally laminated show	✅	–
Nano-texture show glass	Non-compulsory on 1TB and 2TB fashions	–
Extremely Retina XDR Show	✅	–
PixelSense Circulation Show	–	✅
Apple Pencil Hover	✅	–

Design, dimensions, weight, colours

The M4 iPad Professional is the “thinnest product Apple has ever created” at simply 5.1mm for the 13″ mannequin.

Together with that, the brand new M4 iPad Professional is lighter than its predecessor and weighs underneath 1 pound for the 11″ and 1.28 kilos for the 13″.

Up in opposition to the brand new Floor Professional, the M4 iPad Professional is nearly twice as skinny and is 2/3 a pound lighter.

	13″ M4 iPad Professional	13″ Floor Professional
Top	11.09 inches (281.6 mm)	11.3 inches (287 mm)
Width	8.48 inches (215.5 mm)	8.2 inches (208 mm)
Depth	0.20 inch (5.1 mm)	0.37 inches (9.3 mm)
Weight	1.28 kilos (582 grams)	1.97 kilos (893 grams)

Whereas the M4 iPad Professional is simply out there in House Black and Silver, the Floor Professional is available in Sapphire, Dune, Black, and Platinum.

Connectivity and equipment

The brand new iPad Professional fashions work with the identical sort of Apple equipment. These come within the type of a brand new Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil Professional – or you could possibly go for the mid-tier Apple Pencil with USB-C.

The brand new Floor Professional works with a number of keyboard and stylus choices with the latest being the Floor Flex Keyboard with Slim Pen. It presents wi-fi connectivity, a built-in battery, and a skinny design.

	13″ M4 iPad Professional	13″ Floor Professional
Apple Pencil Professional/USB-C assist	$129 or $79	–
Magic Keyboard assist	$349	–
Floor Flex Keyboard w/ Slim Pen	–	$449
Floor Professional Keyboard w/ Slim Pen	–	$279
5G	✅ (sub-6Ghz)	Coming fall 2024
WiFi	6E	7
SIM	eSIM solely	nanoSIM
Bluetooth	5.3	5.4
USB-C	✅ 1x USB 4	✅ 2x USB 4
Thunderbolt	✅	❌
Face ID	✅	–
Home windows Hey face auth	–	✅
Stickers within the field	❌	???

The iPad Professional delivers Thunderbolt assist with the USB4/USB-C port. However the Floor Professional goes past the iPad Professional with WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and presents a bodily nanoSIM for upcoming mobile fashions.

Battery life

The 2024 iPad Professional fashions with M4 chip function the identical battery life as their predecessors:

• As much as 10 hours of net or video use on WiFi
• As much as 9 hours of net use with mobile

In the meantime, the thicker Microsoft Floor Professional presents:

• As much as 10 hours of “energetic net utilization”
• As much as 14 hours of “native video playback”

Storage and worth

The iPad has extra configurations however the Floor Professional presents increased max reminiscence with 32GB RAM. Right here’s how the pricing shakes out.

	13″ M4 iPad Professional	13″ Floor Professional
128GB WiFi	–	–
128GB + cell	–	–
256GB WiFi	$1,299	–
256GB + cell	$1,499	–
512GB WiFi	$1,499	$1,499
512GB + cell	$1,699	fall 2024
1TB WiFi	$1,899	$1,699 (16GB RAM) $2,099 (32GB RAM)
1TB + cell	$2,099	fall 2024
2TB WiFi	$2,299	–
2TB + cell	$2,499	–

Cameras, video, and audio

On the M4 iPad Professional rear digicam system, you’ve bought a 12MP broad lens, LiDAR Scanner, and a Retina Flash with True Tone. 

Apparently, the M4 iPad Professional has ditched the 10MP extremely broad lens of the M2 iPad Professional.

On the entrance, you get a 12MP extremely broad lens with Middle Stage assist that’s now centered on the lengthy panorama edge as a substitute of the quick edge with the 2024 M4 iPad Professional fashions.

The Floor Professional includes a related digicam setup with a 10MP rear lens and an extremely broad entrance Quad HD lens.

	13″ M4 iPad Professional	13″ Floor Professional
Rear lens	12MP	10MP
LiDAR	✅	❌
Rear digicam flash	✅	❌
TrueDepth digicam with Face ID	✅ (panorama edge)	–
Home windows Hey auth digicam	–	✅
Entrance digicam	Extremely broad 12MP	Extremely broad Quad HD
Auto-tracking entrance digicam	“Middle Stage	“Auto framing”
Speaker system	4-speaker audio	Stereo audio
Stereo recording	✅	–
Studio-quality mics	4	2

M4 iPad Professional vs Floor Professional conclusion

Who’s the winner? It is a robust one, the {hardware}, specs, and efficiency on each of those gadgets are stable.

The iPad Professional wins on the slimmest package deal and sure quicker efficiency and functionality with the CPU/GPU of the M4 chip.

However the Floor Professional wins on flexibility, the newest I/O like WiFi 7, longer battery life, and options like a detachable SSD.

The most important query most likely comes all the way down to – do you need to run iPadOS or Home windows 11?

The M4 iPad Professional is offered at Apple, Amazon, Finest Purchase, and extra. And you’ll pre-order the Floor Professional from Microsoft now.

H/T to Ross Younger for the comparability inspiration : )

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