Apple has said that the A8X processor powering the new iPad Air 2 is more powerful than the A8 processor in the iPhone 6, but hasn’t provided other details. An early Geekbench benchmark is indicating that the latest iPad chip comes with a triple-core processor (not a typo) and 2GB of RAM.

As other mobile devices come with quad-core chips and even hexa-core chips, Apple has stayed steady with ARM-based dual-core chips of its own design, mostly to conserve battery life. But adding a third core to the iPad — while unusual for consumer devices — could come in handy for tasks that benefit from being optimized for parallel processes, such as heavy-duty graphics apps like those Adobe has announced. It could also help when it comes to serious multitasking, which the iPad doesn’t do yet, but there are indications that Apple is working on a split-screen mode.

The benchmark also indicates that…