Both the 9.7-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pros also offer better audio and superior cameras. The chief advantages of the iPad Pro are its 4 more hours of battery life, superior tablet apps and how well the optional Apple Pencil works for drawing and sketching. The iPad Pro narrowly wins this face-off overall, 6 to 5 points.

The 12.9-inch iPad Pro scored 5,296 on the same test, while the 9.7-inch model turned in a slightly slower 5,151. For example, in the Geekbench 3 test, which measures overall performance, the Surface notched 6,811. We tested the Core i5 version.īased on our testing, the Surface Pro 4 offers faster performance. The Surface Pro 4 gives shoppers a wide range of CPU options, including a 6th-generation Intel Core m3, Core i5 and Core i7. The iPad Pro's A9X processor is certainly the fastest chip ever in an Apple tablet, and in our review, it had no problem editing two streams of 4K video. Although the Surface Pro 4's included Pen has an eraser and is easy to stow, the Apple Pencil offers a more precise and natural experience, and lots more apps. We counted more than 300 Apple Pencil apps in the App Store, including Paper by FiftyThree (for sketching and layouts), Adobe Comp CC (for making layouts) and Pixelmator (for making fine photo edits). The iPad Pro also benefits from a much wider selection of pen-enabled apps. When you flip the tablet around, the two speakers now on top handle the mids and highs. The two top speakers on the iPad Pro handle the mid and high frequencies, and all four deliver bass. The larger iPad Pro's quad-speaker setup produces loud and surprisingly balanced audio, whether you're streaming Pandora or immersing yourself in a flick. It's hard for two speakers to beat four speakers on a tablet. It has the brightest and most colorful screen of these three tablets. The 9.7-inch iPad Pro has a distinct advantage over the larger iPad Pro and the Surface Pro 4: its True Tone display, which actively measures the brightness and light temperature in the room to adjust colors on the fly. Some preferred the bigger iPad Pro for its brighter picture and better contrast, and some preferred the more saturated hues on the Surface. Our staff was split when I loaded a 4K photo of Dubai on both slates. When we put the two larger tablets side by side when showing the Suicide Squad trailer, the Joker's face looked a little warmer on the Surface Pro, and the 'J' tattoo underneath his left eye looked a bit more detailed. MORE: Best 2-in-1s (Laptop/Tablet Hybrids) Both were very close to a perfect 0, but the 9.7-inch iPad Pro scored a 1. The larger iPad Pro produce slightly more accurate hues, as it notched a Delta-E rating of 0.19, compared with 0.35 for the Surface (lower is better). Producing 121.9 percent and 111 percent of the sRGB color spectrum, respectively, the screens on the 9.7-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pros cover more colors than the Surface Pro 4 (99.7 percent).

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