Apple unveiled the iPad mini (2026) with an OLED screen and the A20 Pro chipset on Monday, and the first units will reach buyers on November 6. Ahead of that launch, a Wi-Fi + Cellular unit listed as iPad19,2 has been run through Geekbench 7, giving an early look at its raw CPU performance.
The Geekbench entry records 3,879 points in the single-core test and 9,870 in multi-core. The CPU is configured with five cores — two performance and three efficiency — and the performance cores are clocked at 4.93GHz. That points to a binned A20 Pro: Apple appears to disable one efficiency core on the 128GB and 256GB models, while the 512GB version uses the full six-core chip. The listing also reports 12GB of RAM, a detail Apple does not advertise.
The Geekbench listing shows 3,879 single-core, 9,870 multi-core and 12GB of RAM for the iPad mini (2026).
How it compares
By comparison, a Geekbench 7 run of the iPhone 18 Pro Max, which uses the full six-core A20 Pro, posts 4,024 single-core and 11,424 multi-core. The mini is therefore about 4% behind in single-core and 14% behind in multi-core, a gap consistent with the missing core.
The gain over the previous iPad mini is substantial. The prior model scores 2,638 single-core and 7,103 multi-core, so the new mini is roughly 47% faster in single-core and 39% faster in multi-core.
Against Apple’s larger tablets the balance shifts toward multi-core silicon. The M5-powered iPad Pro 13 posts 3,580 single-core and 15,126 multi-core; the OLED iPad mini is about 8% faster in single-core, while the Pro maintains a 53% lead in multi-core. Compared with the M4 iPad Air 13, which records 3,206 and 12,686, the mini is roughly 21% quicker in single-core while the Air is about 29% ahead in multi-core. More cores still win in heavily threaded workloads.
Pre-orders are already open. Pricing starts at $699, €749, or £699.
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