M1 iPad Pro 12.9 vs Tab S7 Plus: Was Mini-LED a Big Mistake? By Max Tech

This video is sponsored by Squarespace the best way to make an amazing website. Hey guys. This is Vadim with max tech, and this right here is apple's brand-new m1 iPad Pro, and this is Samsung's tab, s7 plus now. The big thing that we want to compare in this video is apple's brand-new mini LED display, which is a bit controversial because of the blooming issues compared to the OLED display on the tab, s7 plus, which has pixels that illuminate themselves. So they don't have blooming issues, but they do have their own limitations, which we are going to get into, and on top of that, we're going to be comparing everything else, such as the speakers, design, cameras and, of course, the performance, because this iPad Pro has a new, crazy, m1 chip. Now, starting off with the design, even though the Samsung is a 12.4-inch tablet compared to 12.9 inch, you guys can see a massive size difference between the two, this one's just so much wider, and that's because of the aspect ratio that I'm going to be talking about when we get into the display section and because of that, the iPad Pro weighs 1.5 pounds compared to 1.3. So you could definitely tell the difference in your hand, and on top of that, the Samsung is actually a little thinner as well.

Now, taking a look at the other design aspects, we can see antenna bands along both the iPad Pro and the Samsung except the Samsung also has it on the bottom, and we also see that we have a wireless charging kind of plastic insert for the s pen, whereas the iPad Pro has it on the side, but in this video we're not going to get into the pens and the keyboards, because we have a ton of other stuff to cover like the displays and performance. Now. I do want to mention that both of these have wide and ultra-wide cameras on the back along with flash, but the iPad Pro does have a dedicated LIDAR scanner. The iPad Pro also has a thunderbolt port for the first time ever, compared to only USB on the Samsung, and that is going to be a big deal for some people who really like using those accessories, and both of these also have quad speakers. So you have the speaker grilles on both sides now before I flip these over, and we get into the very interesting stuff.

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I think it takes a little more time now. One thing, that's unique about the m1 iPad Pro is that it comes with a 12 megapixel ultra-wide selfie camera. The quality is really, really good, but Apple is going to be using a center stage feature where crops in and kind of follows your face. So let me know how the microphone sounds as well on this iPad Pro and now on the Samsung. You guys can see that this is definitely a more cropped in shot, just like the old iPad Pro, but you guys, let me know what you think about the quality as well as the microphone down in the comments below now.

The last thing I want to mention before we get into the speaker comparison is the difference in the battery sizes, the Samsung tab, s7 plus, has a 39.04 watt hour battery compared to 40.88 watt hours on the iPad Pro. So this is almost two watt hours larger and, as you can see, we're at 100 battery life on the iPad Pro and now down to 97 on the tab, s7, which is interesting, and now, let's get into that speaker comparison and, of course, I'm going to enable Dolby Atmos on the Samsung, and we switched the song to a new one and you guys were complaining. So, let's bring back the original and classic where we started me song for watching. Let me know what you think about the sound quality down in the comment section below. But to me, I was very surprised by the volume of the Samsung, because the 12.9-inch iPad Pro is much louder than the 11-inch m1 iPad Pro and the Samsung is even louder than the 12.9 in. So this volume is really impressive, but one thing I noticed on the iPad Pro is that it has more kind of deep bass as well as deeper and louder mid, compared to the Samsung, which had a lot of high notes and now, let's get into the performance comparison, starting with geek bench 5 and, as you guys can see, we have the m1 chip running at 3.2 gigahertz, with 8 gigabytes of memory and right here we have the snapdragon 865 plus, and we made sure to get the higher end. Eight gigabyte ram model on the tab because the base model only comes with six, whereas with the m1 iPad Pro, you can actually get up to 16 gigs of ram, and we actually did a full comparison: video comparing an 8, gig and 16 gig model, which was very interesting.

So if you haven't already seen that definitely watch that video and with that, let's go ahead and run the CPU benchmark all right, we got our scores and, oh, my goodness guys. I cannot believe this difference. We have 76 more single core performance on the iPad Pro and wait for it 2.4 times more multi-core performance. I cannot believe this difference now. That is probably why the iPad Pro is so much more expensive, but we're going to get into prices in just a bit now, of course, that was a heavy benchmark.

So, let's test something that everybody does on their tablets and that's web browsing. This is speedometer 2.0 a web browsing benchmark which is going to show the real world. I guess web browsing performance that you're going to get with each one. So let's start it no way guys. I was not expecting these scores 210 on the iPad Pro and only 67.3 on the Samsung. I was not expecting a score that low, I thought, it'd be like maybe somewhere in the hundreds but 67 to 210, that's over three times better for browsing performance on the iPad Pro and now, let's get into the big graphics test, 3dmark's brand-new wildlife extreme benchmark we're going to do unlimited on both of these to see how the graphics performance compares the benchmark is now finished and guys.

Furthermore, I thought that 2.4 times more multi-core performance was a lot. This right here is insane 29.8 fps on the iPad Pro compared to 7.2 fps on the tab, s7 plus, that is over four times the fps, and I was thinking of doing a gaming performance comparison between these two tablets. But at this point I don't even think it's worth it and now, let's finally answer the biggest question that we had done apple make a mistake by using mini led instead of just going to OLED like the Samsung. First, I want to mention that the Samsung has a 12.4 inch display compared to 12.9 inches, but, as you can see, the surface area is much larger on the iPad Pro, and that is because of the difference in the aspect ratio. We have a four by three aspects: ratio on the iPad and a 16 by 10 on the Samsung, which means it is taller, and it doesn't have as much surface area now in terms of the resolution they're, both pretty similar.

We have 266 PPI on the Samsung and 264 on the iPad Pro now. Both of these have 120 hertz panels. That means they're going to be super smooth compared to more budget tablets. Now one of the main benefits with mini led is that it can get a lot brighter than OLED, specifically up to 1600 nits when you're watching HDR content, but when you're just using it as a regular tablet and doing common things, it's going to be limited to around 600 nits of brightness. So let's max it out and see how bright the Samsung's OLED gets.

As you guys can see right here, we have both of them fully maxed out. Let's go to google and from that top camera you guys should be able to see that the iPad Pro is quite a bit brighter and one interesting thing that we notice is that the split second, that you go from regular page to a full screen white page, the display on the Samsung actually dims down a little, because OLED can't really handle full screen brightness that well, but one advantage that you do get with an OLED display is better viewing angle. So I'm going to match the brightness, and then we're going to see the difference in. I guess brightness shift. So if you go ahead and look at the side camera, you should be able to see that the Samsung holds its brightness better when viewing at it from the side compared to the iPad Pro, which starts to dim down a little.

And another thing I'm noticing from my view right here, is that the colors on the iPad Pro actually shift over to a blue tint. So I'm going to try to show you guys in the top camera you can see how the display goes from white to blue. So that's definitely an issue with this display and now, let's move on to comparing the contrast, because throughout this video I noticed that the contrast on the Samsung didn't look that great for some reason. So what I want to do is open up a pure black YouTube, video and compare them and if you look at that top camera. For some reason, the display on the Samsung looks a little gray, where it should be pure black because the pixels are literally off, but the iPad Pro has much deeper blacks and I think the reason for that is actually because of the reflectivity on the Samsung.

Even if you look at the bezels, the bezels on the Samsung don't look as deep black. So let's compare the reflectivity. So if you look at the side camera, the Samsung almost looks like a mirror, like you could see so much detail, whereas with the iPad Pro everything's, deep and dark, and it's hard to see like even in the blues, they're much darker than on the Samsung and now what I have right here is a HDR video on YouTube. This is the lg OLED test. It's designed to show off the benefits of OLED, so it should give the Samsung an advantage.

So let's go ahead and watch this alright guys to my eyes. This is insane because the Samsung almost looks like an lcd, because those blacks are not black. They are gray because of that reflectivity issue. This right here on the iPad Pro looks amazing. Now I'm not going to get into the blooming stuff.

Yet I'm going to talk about that in just a minute, but this difference is insane. I don't understand why Samsung gave this tablet such a reflective display if they were going to put in an OLED panel because it kind of ruins it and the thing is this room? Isn't even that bright to show reflectivity that bad? So I guess we're going to have to turn off all the lights and see what these displays are going to look like and see if we get any blooming on the mini LED display, and now that the lights are off, the reflectivity is no longer an issue on the Samsung, but man that mini led is crazy, crazy, bright and because of the brightness. The mini LED display looks much more like HDR, because the highlights can really pop compared to the Samsung, which looks a little more flat and as far as blooming. Looking at from my angle that icon right there, I could definitely see a little of gray around it, but in general, in these bright scenes, you really can't tell even in this one you can't really tell with the blooming and wow that waterfall is really popping on the iPad Pro, but now to really test the blooming. I'm going to put the iPad Pro through the most extreme scenario, all the lights off brightness set to the max, and then let's switch to a different video.

Alright. So I have a HDR fireworks video with pitch black, which is the hardest scenario, and with these controls open, I'm seeing a lot of blooming on the minute LED display, especially up here where that title is and on the Samsung. It just looks so clean and now watching this video. You can definitely see that blooming, especially right here on the left side, with those buildings you're seeing that glow around it, whereas the OLED on the Samsung man that looks so clean. That contrast is really, really good, but keep in mind.

This is the most extreme scenario we maxed out the display all the way and in most movies, you're not gonna, have blacks like this very rarely. You're going to have such an extreme scenario. So now we turned on just one of our lights, and it's definitely dim in this room, but that major difference is no longer that big, because that reflectivity is reintroduced on the Samsung and the blooming doesn't look so bad. I can still tell if I look closely, but it's definitely not as bad as it was in pitch black and now, with all of that said, and compared let's get into the final verdict. The 12.9-inch m1 iPad Pro cost 270 dollars more than the Samsung. But if you do want to get the Apple Pencil, the tab seven gets it included, so that makes it a 400 difference, spec for spec.

Now, initially we thought that was quite a bit more expensive and maybe not worth the price, but now that we've compared it and saw those crazy performance gains and saw that the mini LED display is definitely quite good, especially with that really nice anti-reflectivity coating. I actually think that it's worth paying the extra money for the iPad Pro and to answer the original question did apple, make a mistake by going with mini, led well, if you're mainly buying a tablet to use at night for watching movies, then yes, OLED is definitely better, but for most scenario and most common use cases. I'd have to say that mini led is the better choice. So hopefully you guys enjoyed this comparison and if you did go ahead and comment down below and click that circle, but to subscribe for more comparisons like this one definitely watch one of those two videos right there. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you in the next video.

Source : Max Tech