iPad Air 2 vs 2017 iPad vs 2018 iPad - Speed Comparison By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for Solo Tech and many of you have been asking me to compare the new iPad, the 2018 iPad, with either the 2017 iPad or the iPad Air 2, so I thought we'd, compare them as far as speed goes all at once now we're going to run a few different, apps and games, but the first thing I wanted to do is show you the display settings. This is a laminated display. These are air gapped displays. So here you can see, there's no air gap whatsoever. The screen is glued straight to the glass just like on an iPhone, but on this one it's easier to see on the white one both of this and these or the last two iPads have air gaps. Now one thing that's interesting to know it is, if you'd like to get this iPad, it's 329, or you can get this one refurbished or left over at this point for about 250, or you can get a 64 gig variant of this for about 319 refurbished, so they're all comparable.

As far as price goes, they do have a few different specs. As far as the speed, though, the iPad Air 2 comes with an a8 X chip, while the iPad or 2017 iPad has an 9, and then we have an 8 10 fusion, so they're all a little different. This should be the fastest one. We'll take a look at the display settings first, so you can see this one is far less reflective than these two I don't know if you can see that really well, but it's very apparent to me how less reflective this iPad is as compared to this one. If I turn off the displays, maybe you can see that you'll see here this one has some fingerprints on it, but you'll see.

Hopefully you can see this one is much less reflective than the other two. They all have first-generation touch ID. Let's take a look at the display. You'll see we're at similar brightnesses. Well, this one's turned way up.

Let me turn them down to be about equal here, they're, all at the same brightness settings. We all have them on/off for night shift and auto lock is off of course, so we can film this. Let's take a look at the Geek bench scores, so I have Geek bench on all of them. Let me find it here, open them up, and you'll see here. It says: iPad, air, 2, iPad, 5th generation, iPad, 7, comma 5 or 6th generation will use the CPU, compute, and I'll see if I can hit these.

At the same time, let me see if I can do that and close, but we'll let this run I'll speed it up. So you don't have to wait, though, now just as we'd expect the latest iPad here finished first second and then third based on age, so we were only about a second off as far as when I started, these so 50 909 for multi-core, 44, 16 and 4375 very similar with these two iPads until we get to the single core. This one is almost double that one. Now that the benchmark test is done. Let me show you this is what was running on all of them.

So that's what we had running you'll see I, have Monument Valley to in the dock, let's open that and see how quick it loads on each of them. So let me see if I can get these to go at the same time there we go. That's a little tricky to do. Let's see how quickly they load so right in order they loaded it about the same rate. Let's see if we can open up the same levels here.

Let's do this one and open up the levels here, so you'll see, there's not a huge speed difference, but you can notice it as far as that part goes now. It's all the same. So, let's see if we can get them all to walk at the same place. I missed that one, but you get the idea. It's its plenty fast on all of them to play this game.

Now, let's open another game, well open, CSR racing 2! Now I've never opened this game on any of these iPads. So let me see what this is going to be like see. I've got these a little closer here. Let's see how this opens they're all loading as we'd expect this one's first second and then third, there we go we're almost ready to go on this one. It looks like iPad Air 2 is still loading and why it's at this screen- I, don't know I haven't opened it on any of them.

Let's see what we've got here, I guess, that's fine I haven't played this in a while, and I'm, not sure why it's restoring. Maybe it was once on this iPad I'm, not sure, but there's definitely a difference between the three as far as the speed goes, but there's definitely a difference between all of them. So I think you get the idea. As far as that goes. There we go.

There was a little of stutter and one thing I noticed when I was using the iPad Air ?, it did stutter. Sometimes when I was doing different tasks with it. Now. One of the other things I wanted to try is just opening a document and seeing how that loads, and I've loaded a document on all of them and I wanted to see how the typing was. As far as all of this go.

So this is pages I'll, just say hi. How are you today? I can type pretty fast on a touchscreen, so missed that one? Let's try this one, so they're, all pretty fast, as far as that goes, I wouldn't expect many slowdowns as far as the iPad Air 2. Now they both multitask as well. So let me see if I can bring this up here, so you will bring that up, and we're multitasking. We can open this one.

Of course this is going to want to run by itself, and then you can slide in an app on every one of these. Now the newest iPad is the only one to support the Apple Pencil. So at this time we can't really test it between all three of them, but we can test scrolling. So let's do that with Safari, so I'm at Apple's website, and you'll see scrolling. It seems to be plenty smooth on all of them, just as you would expect.

So, even though you're you've got an older iPad here, I wouldn't expect it to be slow or anything like that. As far as scrolling, and in fact out of these three, my favorite one to use is the iPad Air 2, just because of the laminated display and the thinness of it. It's pretty incredible how thin it is it's a couple millimeters thinner than this one and the overall experience is really great. Maybe we should do one more speed test, so here is iMovie I'm running it on all of them, I'm going to add some footage to them and go from there and see how fast we can compress 4k footage, I'm, recording this with the iPhone and 10 I'm, going to move this footage to the iPads, its 4k footage, and then I'll airdrop it over to the iPads and see how it goes as far as compressing this video. So we'll let it run to about 30 seconds here, and you get the idea.

There's some movement things like that, but it's going to be very familiar and similar footage on all of them. Now that we've created the movie I'm not going to really edit any of this, maybe I'll throw a title on it. Just to see how that goes here, I'll add a fade in and fade out. Not theme music fade in fade out on the footage. So it's got a little more to do, then, let's go and add some titling now this is 4k.

Xxx footage so happen. This will add a title. Maybe we'll just do prism for all of them. So now we have a title: that's fine! It's across the video that makes it a little more tricky to render and let's share this and see what it's like it done on all of them and then, if we hit the share button, and you'll see all the different videos, what we'll do is we'll share it, and we'll just save the video. So let's go ahead and hit that, and we'll do this in 4k, and I think we'll get similar times here.

This one I would expect to be much faster with the a10 fusion processor, but they're moving along just fine, this one's beating the rest quite a bit, and this is a 30-second 4k video. So it's not very long. So if you did have a video like this video, it's willing to take much longer, it's incredible. How much faster this one is, though easily two times faster. It looks like, but the iPad Air 2 is keeping up just fine as far as speed goes, it's copying, and it's done, so we're almost done now.

This one did get started a couple seconds later, but these to the 2017 iPad and the iPad Air 2, it's surprising how similar they are. As far as speed goes when it comes to exporting movie, video or 4k videos. So that's pretty much. If I think that should give you a good idea as far as the speed between all of them, I would say that any of them are fine. If you want the fastest.

Obviously you want to get the latest one, but if you want a display without an air gap, get an air two. If you want a perfect discount at iPad, 2017 iPad might be the way to go. Let me know your thoughts, though, which one would you choose in the comments below if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and like I'll leave a link to the wallpaper in the description below. As always, thanks for watching this is Erin. I'll see you next time.

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