Right, but that’s a 5 year old machine they’re comparing against. Still impressive, but not what the title implies.
[1] http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/3036382?baseline...
That 90 watt part meanwhile is designed to put out that performance all day long.
(You might think that makes the iPad performance all the more impressive but that kind of throttling is nowadays built into the chip itself, it's not just limited thermal design. They are peddling this as a pro device and I would like my pro device to keep up that performance level for the entire time it takes to build my C++ project or run my deep learning kernel)
It is not slow, but it is not as fast as a modern machine. Maybe impressive, but not parity.
That benchmark might be a bit flawed.
The i7-7700K is not twice as fast.