2020 iPad 8th Gen vs 2019 iPad 7th Gen 10.2" : surprises! By MobileStuffReview

Welcome to the 2020 iPad 8 versus the 2019 iPad 7 comparison, the only change this year is the CPU upgrade from 810 to a12, but there's more to the story, let's take a deeper look design wise. We have the same body layout, including that wonderful and extremely useful 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. The only physical difference is the power adapter, which gets a welcome, upgrade to 20 watts, and you'll notice. It's an USB plug, so a lightning to USB-C cable is included. Taking a look at the difference between the a12 and 810. We have three gigabytes of ram two fast CPU cores for both four energy efficient cores for the a12 and two for the a10.

The a12 gets four GPU cores and the a10 s6 the a12 finishes off with a special acorn neural engine used for machine learning and AI applications. The reflective coating is the same good, but not great usable and moderate sunlight. One thing to note is that the last three generations of non-laminated displays have felt quite hollow, almost as if you could puncture it. If pressed too hard. The camera specs are identical and have not changed, but the quality of the images are greatly improved, they're, actually pretty good.

Now the main camera now takes very clean and detailed pictures. The iPad 7 pics are very grainy with less detail in comparison. Thanks reverse, though, with a front selfie camera, I will give the edge to the iPad 7. Taking a look at video. We still get a big crop, as you can see when overlaid to a photo taken from the same distance.

The iPad 8's video is definitely better than the iPad 7, but not to the same degree as the photos. All in all, the camera is a big improvement onto benchmarks, starting with geek bench 5. , with single core. We get 42 percent faster than the seven and malty we get a healthy 47 percent and with GPU we get a whopping 66 improvement onto 3dmark. The trend continues with 57 overall improvement, but if you look at their frame rates, it shows an impressive 50 to 100 improvement over the 7, so gaming looks very promising.

So, let's try one out pub g with graphics, set to balance and frame rate to extreme, which is the high settings allowed for 60 frames per second on these iPads I'm actually recording the gaming metrics while playing, so that's why I'm sprinting and moving around the iPad 7 is good and very playable. Definitely above 30 frames per second, but under 60. The iPad 8, on the other hand, is just buttery, smooth, 60 fps, all the way, taking a deeper look under the hood with the iPad 8 it does 16 milliseconds per frame, which is 60 fps, never going below that at any time. It's rock solid. The iPad 7, on the other hand, oscillates from 16 to 33 milliseconds, meaning it's switching between 60 fps to 30 fps for an average of somewhere in the 40s fps now onto a graphics application procreate.

The iPad 8 does 12 layers max as expected as what the iPad 7 did. The last time I tested it, but this time the iPad 7 does a whopping 18 layers. I don't know if it's a bug or not. I did reset the iPad, but no change for some reason. It supports 18 layers.

I wouldn't buy the iPad 7 just for this reason, although please do enjoy it while less on to video export using a two minute, 46 second 4k clip the first minute is cut and moved to the back. Then a 30-second title is added to the first clip and a Gaussian blur to the last we'll do the export using Lima fusion first up is exporting h.264 format, the most popular video codec, the a10 finished in two minutes, seven seconds, while the a12 took two minutes, ten, that's three seconds slower, crazy. I've done this multiple times and the a10 always comes out ahead right. Let's try a more modern codec, the h.265, and there we go again the a-10b by split. Second, what in the world is going on day? 12 should be crushing daytime, but here we are pretty much even export for h.265. All I can say is that these apps probably have not been optimized for the a12, with three gigabytes of ram, which is strange.

Concerning the iPad.8 has the same CPU as a 2019 iPad Air. Before wrapping up, I want to show you one cool feature of iOS 14, which is the ability to write into any text field directly. This is a pretty convenient feature when you already have the pen in your hand, you no longer have to put it down or rearrange to type something quick. In summary, the iPad 8 is really solid. It's moved into last year's iPad Air territory, which was aimed at those that wanted performance on a budget.

Should you upgrade only if you're bumping into performance issues, if you have the 5th or 6th gen iPads, the 50 ram increase alone is meaningful, but again only if you're becoming frustrated with your current iPad? Okay, I hope you found this comparison. Helpful, please remember to like and subscribe. It really helps thanks and see you in the next one.

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