If you are anything like me you probably have an older iPad
that you're thinking about upgrading,
but you're really not sure about whether you should
upgrade to the latest iPad eighth (8th) generation.
Now, it is three hundred and twenty-nine dollars ($329) and
you don't know if it's going to be value for your money if you
upgrade from that older device.
Well, you are in the right place because in today's video
I'm going to unbox that ten-point
two-inch iPad (10.2), I'm going to do some performance tests
against the previous generation, and at
the end of the video might give you an idea whether or not you
should upgrade from your older iPad.
I am Mike and this is tech 24/7 TV.
Let's get started.
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The entry point into the eighth generation (8th) *iPad* is
still starting at three hundred twenty-nine dollars ($329) and
that gets you 32 gigs of storage.
Really depending on what your lifestyle is, 32 gigabytes
(GB) may or may not be sufficient for you.
I can tell you for me, I have a lot of games on my iPad, I use
it for a lot of documentation that I store on the iPad and
not necessarily in the cloud for this iPad, but it does lend
weight for me to getting 128 gigabytes (GB) for the
hundred bucks more.
Now that may or may not be feasible for you but you'd have
to let me know about that in the comments below.
I think that most people should be able to get away with the
32 gigabytes (GB) iPad.
Very few use cases should or would really need 128
gigabytes (GB) iPad.
Now depending on what iPad you are upgrading from, the biggest
change here is going to be 1) the processor.
Now in this new eighth-generation iPad,
you are getting the A12 bionic processor with
the neural engine.
The previous iPad came with the A10 and it didn't have any
neural engine in it and it's roughly somewhere between.
I think it's like forty-six percent faster in terms of like
the computations it can do.
Now this iPad much like the previous generation supports
the apple pencil, that was introduced in 2017 if I'm not
mistaken it also supports the Apple keyboard that was
introduced last year.
So you're really getting a full suite of features that the iPad
offers in you know in addition to getting that brand new
processor or that new processor that is in this.
Now it's not the new processor that Apple offers that Reno
right now that it's going to be the A14 which is in the iPad
Air for that launches like in a number of days from now which
is the Apple event.
But I would say that this is going to be more than a
sufficient processor to last you.
several years.
You know four or five years I think at the minimum that you
would see Apple supporting this iPad.
So you should feel confident when you look at it and you
purchase it that it's going to have support again for at least
four or five years.
Apple doesn't have a history of ending support.
Anything between three years.
I still have an iPad Air 2 that is 6 years old this October.
That's still supported by iPadOS 14.
Now inside Let's go take a look at the documentation first.
We have some new Apple stickers.
These are kind of big, don't they?
And the user's manual.
Also new this year is going to be the fact that Apple is
including a USB C wall adapter which has been upgraded to 20
watts and then you also have Lightning-to-USB
C cable included.
Now just put this aside.
So I think it goes without saying that if you're buying
the new generation of the *iPad* it really should be
faster than the previous generation.
And if you look at these iPads you are getting the H1 bionic
chip with the neural engine in comparison to the A10 fusion.
Now I really think there's gonna be that much faster than
it was but it really did surprise.
Now I did use geek bench five as a way of measuring the raw
performance coming off of the chip.
It's not necessarily an indication of what real-world
performance would look like, but I would say that if you're
just looking at raw speeds and feeds you can see which one
device is gonna be faster.
All right.
Now I started by having both devices turned off and I'm
powering them back at the same time just to make sure that
there's clear any type of memory.
In terms of just boot-up time, here again here in the left is
the iPad 8 and here on the right we have the iPad seven,
we got the home screen first here on the iPad 8.
Now both not iPads are powered on and we're going to go ahead
and run GeekBench bench here geek bench opens up on the
seventh generation iPad fashion that opens up on the eighth
generation iPad and that probably has to do a lot with
how the developer is optimizing their app for that.
So I wouldn't say it's a clear indication.
Now let's go ahead and run the CPU, CPU and we're
going to click Run benchmark and they are off.
So now both iPads are running the CPU benchmark
in GeekBench 5.
Pretty exciting.
I wonder which one is going to finish first.
Now the benchmark tests take about two-to-three
minutes to complete.
They're something that runs quickly because it goes through
a number of different tests going to
*create* the benchmark.
OK so we have two minutes and thirty-two seconds.
The iPad seventh (7th) generation finishing 12 seconds
faster than the iPad eighth (8th) generation at two minutes
and forty-four seconds.
So looking at the raw performance numbers here we
have a single-core score of 11 15 on the eighth generation
*iPad* compared to seven fifty-nine on the seventh (7th)
generation *iPad* and twenty-one eighty-nine versus
one thousand four hundred and twenty.
Yeah.
So I would think that they are optimizing the model here.
But I guess nonetheless we have much more significantly faster
the iPad eighth-generation compared to the Seventh
Generation on a single core score it's roughly 30 percent
faster on a multi-core score it is roughly 30 percent faster
actually as well.
The eighth-generation I've had previously is at one thousand
one hundred fifteen single-core score compared to seven hundred
fifty-nine on a seventh-generation iPad.
And then you have a multi-core score and the eighth generation
iPad twenty-one eighty-nine compared to 14 14 20 and
the seventh generation.
So about 30 percent faster in each scenario which is actually
kind of impressive 30 percent starting to say something.
It's not something to sneeze at.
I think in the beginning the video I quarter
around 44 percent.
Now if you are serious about upgrading let me know which
iPod that you were upgrading from down the comments below
because you're probably going to see better performance
results if you have an older iPad not better.
I mean you for sure you see better performance results if
you're upgrading from an older iPad to this device.
Now I want to go and do some usability testing but I want to
know from you what apps you want to go in and see me use.
Let me know in the comments below and I'll go ahead
and do that.
Now I also have the ten-point five-inch (10.5) iPad Pro from
2017 if you want see that in the next video, drop a
like down below.
I am Mike, this is tech 24/7 TV.
I will catch the next one.
I'm gonna go and do some performance tests against the
previous generation seventh iPad.
I'm gonna go and do some performance as