M4 - Power up, up, up
The lightning‑fast M4 chip with 50 per cent more unified system memory elevates performance for all the things you love to do on iPad Air. It’s an AI powerhouse, enabling the AI features and capabilities you use every day to get things done faster, effortlessly. And the GPU architecture delivers even more fluid advanced graphics whether you’re working, streaming, creating or gaming. All with amazing efficiency for all‑day battery life.
All kinds of powerful
The M4 chip features an 8‑core CPU with 3 performance cores and 5 efficiency cores that power all types of creative tasks, like blazing‑fast photo compositing in Photoshop. And its 9‑core GPU delivers up to 60% faster graphics performance than M1 for fast, fluid 3D CAD or video editing. And with 12GB of on‑device unified system memory, it delivers faster load times, smooth multitasking and amazingly responsive gaming. M4 also enables hardware-accelerated ray tracing, so light, shadows and reflections in apps and games look incredibly vibrant and realistic.
Advanced Neural Engine for advanced AI apps
The 16‑core Neural Engine in M4 makes iPad Air an even more powerful device for AI. More unified system memory and higher memory bandwidth speed up everyday AI tasks like searching for text in Goodnotes. The Neural Engine also enables powerful AI features in photo and video editing apps, giving you greater control and helping you bring your creative vision to life effortlessly.
3x faster Neural Engine performance than M1
Up to 2.3x faster than iPad Air with M1
Over 4x faster 3D pro rendering with ray tracing than iPad Air with M1
iPadOS and apps - Fly through it all
iPadOS 26 introduces Liquid Glass, a stunning new design with a vibrant look and game-changing enhancements that put iPad Air productivity on a new level. A reimagined, intuitive windowing system gives you greater power and flexibility than ever before. Run pro apps, play high-performance games and take on creative projects of any
M4 - Power up, up, up
The lightning‑fast M4 chip with 50 per cent more unified system memory elevates performance for all the things you love to do on iPad Air. It’s an AI powerhouse, enabling the AI features and capabilities you use every day to get things done faster, effortlessly. And the GPU architecture delivers even more fluid advanced graphics whether you’re working, streaming, creating or gaming. All with amazing efficiency for all‑day battery life.
All kinds of powerful
The M4 chip features an 8‑core CPU with 3 performance cores and 5 efficiency cores that power all types of creative tasks, like blazing‑fast photo compositing in Photoshop. And its 9‑core GPU delivers up to 60% faster graphics performance than M1 for fast, fluid 3D CAD or video editing. And with 12GB of on‑device unified system memory, it delivers faster load times, smooth multitasking and amazingly responsive gaming. M4 also enables hardware-accelerated ray tracing, so light, shadows and reflections in apps and games look incredibly vibrant and realistic.
Advanced Neural Engine for advanced AI apps
The 16‑core Neural Engine in M4 makes iPad Air an even more powerful device for AI. More unified system memory and higher memory bandwidth speed up everyday AI tasks like searching for text in Goodnotes. The Neural Engine also enables powerful AI features in photo and video editing apps, giving you greater control and helping you bring your creative vision to life effortlessly.
3x faster Neural Engine performance than M1
Up to 2.3x faster than iPad Air with M1
Over 4x faster 3D pro rendering with ray tracing than iPad Air with M1
iPadOS and apps - Fly through it all
iPadOS 26 introduces Liquid Glass, a stunning new design with a vibrant look and game-changing enhancements that put iPad Air productivity on a new level. A reimagined, intuitive windowing system gives you greater power and flexibility than ever before. Run pro apps, play high-performance games and take on creative projects of any