Third-gen iPad CPU benchmark and 1 GB RAM →
My speculation on yesterday’s podcast was correct: it looks like the CPU in the A5X is roughly identical to the A5’s CPU, with only the GPU being upgraded.
I don’t think this is a bad thing: the A5 is still very fast by today’s standards. If Apple needed to keep the same CPU to conserve battery life or keep the same price after adding the Retina screen and the LTE radio, that was the right tradeoff.