iPad 8th-Gen (2020) Benchmarks & iPad 7th-Gen (2019) Comparison! By AppleInsider

How's it going everyone welcome to apple insider. This is me a fun video. We've got this brand-new guy this. If you guys recognize this yeah. This is the new 8th, gen iPad. The new 8th gen iPad is here the 2020 basic entry-level iPad, coming in just above 300, and there are a few changes, mainly the biggest thing to talk about is the processor so in this video we're going to go through the current 8th gen compared to the 7th gen iPad, and then we're also going to give you some performance numbers comparing this guy against the last gen iPad, as well as the current gen iPad Pro so some fun stuff to check out, see how that performs is doing with that new processor and see how good of a value this new tablet is.

So let's go ahead and just dive into everything. Okay. So here we are the iPad 8th generation, 2020 iPad. This is apple's, basically, their lowest cost full size iPad. This is perfect for the education market or anyone who's doing just kind of basic browsing email.

Just looking at photos that kind of stuff, you don't need. The fancy processors, you don't need all the upgrades that apple is tacking on to their biggest expensive versions, but this thing is getting some worthwhile upgrades. Now the body of this thing has stayed the same, so you're still looking at the same display as it had before. Uh same brightness, 500 nits of brightness, a lot of the same touch ID still on the home button. There still has a home button still comes in the same 32 128 gigabyte sizes.

That is what you're working with here. You still have a cellular option. That's going to cost you 130 bucks over top of either those storage options.32 gigs is still not a lot for entry level storage. But again, if you're just browsing and stuff, then you probably will be okay with that 32 gigs and, of course, that 128 gig option is there. Should you need to upgrade to it? Few changes, otherwise Apple did make the jump to USB-C, but not the way.

You're thinking this thing still has a lightning port. Lightning port still down there, but Apple did include a lightning to USB-C, cable inside the box and a 20-watt USB-C power brick. I think that is definitely an upgrade. So at least there is an USB charger inside the box here, even if the tablet itself is still on lightning apple is reserving USB for the new iPad Air, as well as those high-end iPad pros. Internally, Apple has jumped from the a10 processor to the a12 processor.

Now the a10 processor was a two core processor and the new a12 is a six core processor, so a big jump just in terms of number of cores and the performance from going from an older processor to a newer one and the additional cores there. We are seeing some huge improvements. Apple says: there's a 40 upgrade in terms of performance over the last generation and, of course, we sold some equally solid performance in our geek bench testing for reference. The 7th gen iPad had a 746 single core and a 1326 multi-core score on geek bench 5.2. We take our new iPad here, and we ran that on the same benchmark, and we're getting a single core score of 11, 17 and 26.45. Those are some solid numbers.

Huge upgrades in both the single core and multi-core scores for the compute score, we're seeing a result of 5366 on the 2020 8th, gen iPad. But why stop there? Let's compare the new iPad with its a12 processor, to the current generation iPad pros, which are rocking the a12 z, bionic processor. So, in our geek bench test for single core, we got 11 17, and we're multi-core a46 90. We're seeing pretty much they're the same single core scores, and we're seeing a slightly elevated multi-core score because you are going from a six core chip to an eight core chip. So you have a little higher multi-core score there on the iPad pros.

But what you're mostly going to be doing, especially on those entry-level iPads you're, not going to be utilizing those multiple cores, all that often 90 of what an iPad does and daily tasks is just going to be relegated to a single core. So the fact they're getting the same single core scores is pretty impressive for this new iPad. The biggest benefit that iPad pros have in terms of performance is with graphics. The iPad pros managed a whopping 12 021. That's compared to what 5366 we saw on the 8th, gen iPad, so a huge boost in graphics performance.

But that makes sense because those on the iPad pros are likely doing. Video editing, photo editing, uh podcasting. Anything, that's going to be really taxing that metal GPU score, and we really understand why the iPhones are so much more capable going from the a12 to the atlas, z, bionic, processor, otherwise, the new iPad, 8th generation 2020 hasn't changed all that much three gigs of ram that a12 processor, the same wireless connectivity options, same storage option, I'm pretty sure, even saying starting price. What you're really going to notice is just that huge improvement in performance both in the single and multi-core scores, and that's what really makes sense, because, if you're buying this iPad, you want to last for a while. So the fact that you can pick it up, and it's got that same single core score as the current generation iPad pros for hundreds and hundreds of dollars less.

I think that is an absolute win. If you guys want to grab the new iPad, you can find links for it down below in the description, and I wouldn't know what you guys think. Are you guys considering the entry level iPad, or maybe you're waiting for the new iPad Air, or are you trying to make the even tougher decision and choose between the iPad Air and maybe a future iPad Pro or the current gen iPad pros? Let me know on Twitter, because I would love to talk about that. Even more find me at Andrew underscore, OSU and I'll check you guys out in the next video you.

Source : AppleInsider