We are eagerly awaiting benchmarks for Apple's fastest-ever M3 Ultra chip in the Mac Studio, but we will have to settle with the first

The iPad Air 11 with M3 is fine for certain tasks, but it can’t be your cheaper MacBook with a touchscreen. It’s better than last year’s model, but good enough may not be enough to justify the upgrade for lingering M1 iPad Air users.

Nonetheless, we now have a good idea of how much faster. The Geekbench website currently has 16 listings for the new M3-packed iPad Air, with the highest results clocking in at 3,099 for single-core and 11,815 for multi-core. The lowest scores are 2,988 and 11,342 respectively, so not a great deal of variance there.