We've got our hands on both devices, and are putting them to the Geekbench test to see which one comes out on top. Hint: it's going to be the one with the all-new A6X processor.

The iPad mini is sporting the A5 processor first found in the iPad 2. Because it's been a while since the A5 came out, we thought there might have been some slight changes to the chipset, but recent photo analysis suggests otherwise.

Geekbench reports that the iPad mini (which is iPad2,5 according to Apple's internal numbering) has a single ArmV7 CPU running at 999MHz with two cores . It has 32KB L1 cache and 1MB L2 cache (no L3 cache). Geekbench report 303MB RAM (so that will be 512MB in total with some being used by the system).

In terms of specifications then it's pretty close to an iPad 2 (actually, it is an iPad 2).