The new eight-generation iPad mini unveiled today has a long list of new features and changes, as outlined in our all-in-one summary below.
Here is what is new for the iPad mini:
Larger, brighter, and more vivid 8.5-inch OLED display , up from 8.3-inch LCD display ↳ Up to 600 nits of SDR brightness, up from 500 nits
↳ Up to 1,200 nits of peak HDR brightness
↳ 60Hz still, no ProMotion
Anti-glare nano-texture display option for 256GB and 512GB models (+$100 upgrade)
Extended display mode support on external display (requires iPadOS 27.2)
Approximately 15% thinner and lighter ↳ 5.4mm thickness, down from 6.3mm
↳ 0.56-pound weight, down from 0.65 pounds (Wi-Fi-only model)
A20 Pro chip built with TSMC's 2nm process ↳ Up to 60% faster CPU performance
↳ Up to 2.7× faster GPU performance
↳ Up to 4.5× faster AI performance
↳ 5-core CPU, 7-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine (128GB and 256GB models)
↳ 6-core CPU, 7-core GPU, and dual 16-core Neural Engine (512GB model)
↳ Neural Accelerators in each GPU…