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hey guys it's Branham in a min from pocketnow.com Apple claims that the iPad 4 is 2 times faster than the iPad 3 you know we're gonna put the claim to the test so let's do a comparison in this video now when we reviewed the iPad 3 and it really wasn't too long ago right we said that the iPad 3 was about the same speed in terms of opening apps and web browsing performance as the iPad 2 which was kind of a good thing but it was a little bit laggy at times when doing a lot of heavy web browsing and launching intense apps and so forth that was because the the iPad 3 has the same chip as the iPad 2 just with more GPU cores in the case of the iPad 4 Apple put the a6x chip in there so it's a similar chip to what is found in the iPhone 5 but it has an additional GPU core and so it's got a lot of technologies to make it a lot faster so in this video we're gonna test in four different areas one startup time to Wi-Fi performance 3 app load time and for web browsing performance so let's start with the first test let's see which one of these turns on faster they're both updated to iOS 6.0 point 1 so they're running the latest and let's see which turns on faster all right and they're off again the iPad 4 is in white and the iPad threes in black should be easy to remember we're waiting to get to the lock screen first to determine a winner and iPad 4 beat the iPad 3 by about 2 second okay so let's get started the first thing we want to do is make sure all programs are cleared out of memory we've got 2 here we'll just clear them out and then we're gonna launch apps let's start with Temple Run it's kind of a 3d game it's not the most intense game but it does have 3d graphics let's see which loads at first one two three go Kate the iPad form is ahead about two seconds and we'll click play just to play for a second it's virtually impossible to play two games of Temple Run at the same time I encourage you to try it at home see if you can do it see how long I can go okay this is too easy right now I really can't detect a difference in this game and again it's not the most intense game but definitely did open faster on the iPad 4 let's try Facebook one two three lunch ok so again about a half a second to a second maybe a little bit more quick than the iPad 3 and there's really no difference in scrolling I guess you could say it's a little bit smoother but it's really impossible to but tell next thing we're going to do is launch the app store one two three lunch and they're pulling up different screens let's plus feature it at the same time okay a little bit faster on the iPad 4 and you can see I haven't been through the screen yet and let's click on the same thing ok a little bit faster on the iPad 4 it that seems to be the summary here ok now we're to launch The Wall Street Journal app 1 2 3 launch and faster on the iPad 4 by about by about a second and a half and let's go into the web browser do some web browsing speed tests keep getting some email notifications over here we're going to different sites here we're gonna close out the browsers and go to pocket now at the exact same time and we'll circle back into a Wi-Fi test in a minute so see if we can get this at the same time might have to come around on the camera here but all right at the same time actually faster on the iPad 4 it looks like it finished first looked like for a second but the iPad 3 was going to win and we're gonna hit the desktop version 1 2 3 go okay the iPad 3 finished first that's interesting let's see which clears up text more quickly so pull out and then release let's do that again that was exactly at the same time that is inconclusive Wow okay so let's click on a story let's go to something with a video here and the winner is the iPad 4 by a little bit actually that is still loading so that's a lot bit and maybe that kind of tripped it up let's play this video see which gets it up on the screen first go slightly faster on the iPad 4 it's really not that big of a difference which is actually kind of disappointing to be honest but I'm glad we're doing this video right people let's do one more thing let's zoom in over here and then we'll go to another webpage then we'll do a Wi-Fi test okay a little bit faster here on the iPad for iPad 3 seems to get bogged down at the last minute let's release and see that was not accurate let's try that again we'll go to some text at the bottom here which I get the same size 1 2 3 exactly the same time okay so let's go to another site let's go to the verge real quick go at the same time amazing ok so it's loading very image intense webpage here let's see which gets there first the iPad 3 this is very very odd ok let's click in on a story here exactly the same time maybe the iPad 4 by like a quarter of a second so with these unscientific tests it looks like that in terms of web browsing performance the iPad 4 might be slightly better but it's not that big of a difference which has been for all of you that own an iPad 3 out there because you don't have to feel like you're missing out now let's do a speed test previously it was not working let's see if it'll work now so we're gonna open up the app opened up a little bit faster on the iPad 4 let's do it the exact same time never a good idea but we'll see what happens we want a faster ping okay and faster ping on the iPad 3 we want a faster down speed looks like it's faster on the iPad 3 that's really crazy and it seems to have froze on the iPad 4 but like I mentioned there's been a problem with the speed test on that app today the point is here in this comparison is that the iPad 4 seems to be a little bit faster than the iPad 3 but definitely not enough for you to go out if you have an iPad 3 and buy an iPad 4 if you're coming from an iPad 2 the difference will be huge iPad 4 is a great choice unless you want to wait for the iPad 5 which probably will be out in the springtime but what we can conclude now is that there's not that big of a difference between the iPad 3 and the iPad 4 in terms of performance maybe it's a matter of a software update maybe we need to do this in different kinds of tests and maybe the iPad 4 would kick butt with really high FPS gaming but in terms of boot up time weight browsing performance app launching speed and Wi-Fi performance it's almost a draw anyway I hope that was helpful if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now