iPad Air

iPad Air 13″ 6 chips M1 – M4 iPad Air 11″ 6 chips M1 – M4 iPad Air 9.7″ 4 chips A7 – A14 Bionic Discontinued

Chip Comparison

Spec M4
8c CPU / 9c GPU
M3
8c CPU / 10c GPU
M3
8c CPU / 9c GPU
M3
8c CPU / 8c GPU
M2
8c CPU / 9c GPU
M1
8c CPU / 8c GPU
A14 Bionic
6c CPU / 4c GPU
A12 Bionic
6c CPU / 4c GPU
A8X
3c CPU / 8c GPU
A7
2c CPU / 4c GPU
Devices iPad Air 13″
iPad Air 11″
CPU
CPU Cores 8 8 8 8 8 8 6 6 3 2
Performance Cores 3 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 3 2
Performance CPU Name Firestorm Vortex Typhoon Cyclone
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 4.4 4.05 4.05 4.05 3.5 3.2 3 2.49 1.5 1.3
Efficiency Cores 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Efficiency CPU Name Icestorm Tempest
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.85 2.75 2.75 2.75 2.42 2.06
L2 Cache (MB) 8 8 8 16 16
SLC Cache (MB) 20 8 8 8 8 8
CPU ISA ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.3-A ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
GPU
GPU cores 9 10 9 8 9 8 4 4 8 4
Execution Units 144 160 144 128 36 128 64
ALU Count 1152 1280 1152 1024 1152 1024 512
GPU Frequency (GHz) 1470 1380 1380 1380 1398 450
TFLOPS 3.84 3.533 3.18 2.826 3.221 2.6
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor 8th-gen Apple 7th-gen Apple 7th-gen Apple 7th-gen Apple 5th-gen Apple 4th-gen Apple Apple Apple PowerVR PowerVR
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 8
Neural Engine TOPS 38 18 18 18 15.8 11 11 5
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 120 102.4 102.4 102.4 102.4 68.3 25.6
Memory bus width (bits) 128 128 128 128 128 128
Memory channels 2 8 8 8 8 8
Memory channel width (bits) 64 16 16 16 16 16
Memory type LPDDR5X-7500 LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR4X LPDDR4X LPDDR3 LPDDR3
Memory options (GB) 12 8
16
24
8
16
24
8
16
24
8
16
24
8
16
4
6
3
4
2 1
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
H264
HEVC
H264
HEVC
H264 H264
Video Decode 1 1 1 1 1
Video Encode 1 1 1 1 1
ProRes Engines 1 1 1 1 1
AV1 Decode 1 1 1 1
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 3 3 3 3 5 5 5 7 20 28
Transistors (billion) 25 25 25 20 16 11.8 6.9 3 1
Die size (mm²) 88 83.27 128 102
Part number APL1W01 APL1W81 APL1021 APL0698
Release date 2026-03-02 2023-11-07 2025-05-07 2023-11-07 2024-05-07 2020-11-10 2020-09-15 2018-09-12 2014-10-16 2013-09-10