iPad Air 2 Release Date, Price & Review: 68% Faster Than Predecessor; 55% Faster Than iPhone 6

Packed with the newest A8X processor, the recently released iPad Air 2 appears not only to be the thinnest tablet so far but also emerges as the fastest among the Apple products to date.

idownloadblog.com said in a post that it is of course "no big shocker" that the new iPad Air 2 is faster than its predecessor, the iPad Air.

The A8X processor that the new iPad Air 2 has, idownloadblog.com said, is the first  1.5Ghz triple-core processor in the iOS devices history. The new tablet also has a 2GB of RAM which is another first for any iOS device, it added.

idownloadblog.com cited a report published by Macrumors wherein Apple products -- iPad Air 2, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPhone 5s, iPad Mini with retina, iPad Mini fourth generation, iPhone 5, and iPhone 5c -- were compared based on how fast they perform.

MacRumors said the data was based on the charts released by Primate Labs.

Primate Labs posted the charts on Twitter with a note saying, "iPad Air 2 with a 3-core processor is the fastest multi-core iOS device by a large margin."

MacRumors said that users have to thank the new A8X processor for this huge improvement. This processor, which has three cores of processing power, defeats the also newly released iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus which both have an A8 processor.

This report confirms that iPad Air 2 is over 55 percent faster than the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and 68 percent faster than its predecessor, iPad Air, which has an A7 processor, in the multi-core benchmark. This concludes that the iPad Air 2 is the fastest among all older models of iPhone and iPad.

In terms of the single-core benchmarks, the iPad Air 2 with the 1.5 GHz cores in the A8X processor also emerges on top of the list, Macrumors said.

iPad Air 2, idownloadblog.com said, scored 1812 in the single-core against its next closest competitor iPhone 6 which only received a score of 1609.

MacRumors said that due to the 100 MHz speed improvement in the new iPad Air 2, it is clear that it is nearly 13 percent higher than the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus which both have 1.4 GHz core.

Furthermore, the iPad Air 2 also defeats the first iPad Air on terms of the single-core benchmark with a lead of at least 23 percent. It is also obviously ahead of other older Apple iPhones and iPads.

Meanwhile, idownloadblog.com said that benchmarks comparing the new iPad Air 2 with other tablet brands have not yet been released.