{"id":414534,"date":"2021-09-17T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T07:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=414534"},"modified":"2021-09-17T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T07:21:11","slug":"new-ipad-mini-has-slower-a15-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/414534-new-ipad-mini-has-slower-a15-chip.html","title":{"rendered":"New iPad Mini has slower A15 chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Apple announced the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/414122-apple-launches-new-ipad-and-revamped-ipad-mini.html\">redesigned iPad Mini<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 which supports 5G connectivity but does not support millimetre-wave \u2014 \u00a0at its \u201cCalifornia Streaming\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Support for 5G was one of the stand-out features of Apple\u2019s iPad Mini reveal; however, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad-mini\/specs\/#:~:text=Cellular%20and%20Wireless,eSIM6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>device specs<\/strong><\/a> show that it only supports low- and mid-band 5G connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Fast 5G connections rely primarily on coverage, which is limited in South Africa but is expanding with MTN, Rain, and Vodacom rolling out their 5G networks <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/5g\/412552-vodacom-launches-5g-network-in-kimberley.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>in new cities<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exclusion of mmWave 5G support in the new iPad Mini may not be a huge loss for the device due to the lack of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/5g\/372904-5g-is-about-to-get-much-better.html\">millimetre-wave 5G<\/a><\/strong> in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Comsol is the only company that has announced mmWave 5G trials in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>MacRumors reported that the new iPad Mini also features a downclocked version of the A15 chip available in the new iPhone 13.<\/p>\n<p>Their report comes after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/browser.geekbench.com\/v5\/cpu\/9851750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">benchmark tests revealed<\/a><\/strong> that the iPad Mini\u2019s chip has a 2.9 GHz clock speed \u2014 compared to 3.21 GHz in all iPhone 13 models.<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears that the downclocked chip has a small impact on the iPad Mini\u2019s performance compared to the iPhone 13.<\/p>\n<p>The iPad Mini&#8217;s benchmark scores were 2-8% lower than the iPhone 13, but it is still 40% and 70% faster than its predecessor in single-core and multi-core performance, respectively.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/414264-iphone-13-pro-south-african-launch-date-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPhone 13 South African launch date revealed<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced the new iPad Mini on Tuesday and the device does not support millimetre-wave 5G connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":414544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[605,43972,11575,69835,72390],"class_list":["post-414534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-geekbench","tag-ipad-mini","tag-iphone-13","tag-mmwave-5g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414558,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414534\/revisions\/414558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}