The latest release of iPad may have seem like a modest hardware revision, but reports from Chipworks and AnandTech suggest the new A6X SoC packs a significant graphics processing boost. Chipworks has identified that A6X chip is 30% larger than the A5X, and most of that is dedicated to graphics processing. The graphic cores on the new chip are larger and take up double the space than the ones on A5X.

Meanwhile, AnandTech dug little deeper and identified the quad-core GPU as PowerVR SGX 554MP4 by Imagination, which scored 76.8 GFLOPS, compared to 38.4 GFLOPS from GPU on the third generation iPad. All this gives the fourth generation iPad significant graphics processing boost that may not be so apparent yet, as it waits for developers to tap into this pool of extra power.