After concerns that Apple might underclock its blazing-fast M1 SoC in the new iPad Air 5, first benchmark entries in Geekbench 5 now fortunately show that this is not the case.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M1-in-the-iPad-Air-5-runs-at-full-3-2-GHz-clock-speed-matches-performance-of-more-expensive-iPad-Pro.608191.0.html