https://wccftech.com/ipad-mini-6-features-slower-a15-bionic-cpu-beaten-by-a14-bionic/

Finding out that the iPad mini 6 features Apple’s latest and greatest A15 Bionic would have stirred customers into absolute excitement, but like all of its presentations, the company did not provide a clearer picture of the tablet’s performance. According to the latest benchmarks, the SoC running in the slate features an underclocked CPU, and in some tests, it is beaten by the A14 Bionic from last year.

By default, the A15 Bionic’s performance cores are running at 3.23GHz, but in the iPad mini 6, Apple has seen fit to reduce those clock speeds to 2.99GHz for some reason. This reduction of frequencies allows the A14 Bionic in the iPhone 12 Pro Max to overtake Apple’s latest custom silicon by a small margin in multiple single-core tests. Fortunately, the multi-core results show a different story, with the iPhone 12 Pro Max beating the iPad mini 6 in just two benchmarks and that too by the skin of its teeth.