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A $699 tablet outrunning an iPad Pro in a CPU test sounds odd, but that’s what an early Geekbench 7 listing suggests for the iPad mini (2026). Its single-core score of 3,879 is about 8% above the 3,580 posted by the M5 iPad Pro 13. The Pro still wins on multi-core by 53%, with 15,126 points against the mini’s 9,870.
Apple announced the tablet this week with an OLED panel, an IP67 body, and iPadOS 27, and it goes on sale November 6. Pre-orders are open now at $699, €749, and £699.
OLED iPad Mini runs Geekbench
The Geekbench listing shows the iPad running on A20 Pro with two performance cores clocked at 4.93GHz and three efficiency cores. It is the binned version of the chip available on the 128GB and 256GB model, while the 512GB variant gets the full six-core A20 Pro. Had it been the full A20 Pro on Geekbench, the difference in multi-core between the M5 iPad Pro 13 and the iPad mini (2026) could’ve been a little lower.
That said, the new model is substantially faster than the previous iPad mini. Geekbench posts its single- and multi-core scores at 2529 and 6741 points, which makes the new model over 45% faster in single-core and 35% faster in multi-core.
All in all, the result suggests the iPad mini (2026) should handle everyday tasks such as opening apps and browsing just as quickly as, or quicker than, some more expensive iPads.
The difference could be more noticeable with heavier workloads such as video exports and rendering, where the additional CPU cores in the iPad Air 13 and iPad Pro 13 give them an advantage.
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