The big draw, of course, is the upgraded M3 processor, which Apple claims is twice as fast as the older iPad Air model with an M1 chip. The M3 silicon comes with an 8 core CPU and a 9 core GPU. Apple says the M3 chip offers up to a 35% performance boost in multithreaded CPU tasks compared to the M1 powered iPad Air, while graphics performance receives a 40% lift. “M3 also brings Apple’s advanced graphics architecture to iPad Air for the first time with support for dynamic caching
