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I am Mike.
Welcome back to Tech 24/7 TV.
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Now, if you are the owner, maybe the first-generation iPad
Pro or the 2017 iPad Pro like I have here, and you're wondering
whether or not you should upgrade to the latest in
portable computing from Apple like the M1 2021 iPad Pro.
You are in the right place because in today's video,
we're going to some comparisons,
some stress tests, and at the end of the video, we will
figure out whether it is worth upgrading from your 2017 iPad
Pro to the 2021 iPad Pro.
Now, let's get started.
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Now, let's get into the review.
This is the 2017 ten-point five-inch (10.5") iPad Pro.
I think it's a great tablet.
I've owned it since it first came out.
I still only today
I actually use it for some miscellaneous things
around the house.
What was great about this tablet is that it gave you the
power and performance of the
iPad Pro in a much bigger form factor than the
first generation, which was the nine-point seven inch.
And so if you remember that, Apple used to make the iPad Pro
in the nine-point seven-inch, and then they start
to differentiate that.
Most of the pros and cons of the 2021 iPad Pro that I go
through today will also apply to the (11')
eleven-inch version, which is not here is using the
twelve-point nine.
So if there's anything specific that does not apply to the 11-
inch version, I will go ahead and call that out.
The first thing you will notice is the industrial design which
changed in 2018 in comparison to the 2017 iPad Pro.
So all the new iPads have this uniform bezel that goes all the
way around the device.
There is no Touch ID button, and there's also Face ID on the
new iPad Pros.
So if you're looking at this, you know, just from a
front-of-the-device perspective, the design on the
2017 iPad Pro is much more dated.
It's not nearly as fresh.
It's not as, I would say, cool-looking, if you want to
put it that way, verses 2020
& 2021 iPad Pro.
There are some hardware differences between the 2017
iPad Pro and the newer versions,
which we'll get into.
Here on the 2017 iPad Pro, You only have Apple
pencil first generation.
Here we have the second generation,
which is magnetic.
You don't really have that kind of cumbersome charging where
you have to plug it into the bottom like you do here.
The 2017 iPad Pro still uses lightning.
If you live in the iOS ecosystem and you only have an
iPhone today and maybe this
iPad, you get better reuse using that single cable than
you do with the 2020 & 2021 iPad Pros where you
have USB-C.
Next up, we will run the Geekbench Machine Learning test
to see how this device performs against one another when
performing machine learning tasks.
We're going to open up Geek Bench ML.
So here we see that the 2017 iPad Pro has three-point nine
one gigs (3.91GB) of available RAM.
And this iPad I'm using right here is the 2021 version,
and it has fifteen point two (15.2GB) of available RAM.
We're going to set the backend instead of being CPU, and we
will use Core ML.
Machine learning makes a difference if you use an app
like the Photos app or Lightroom, where the app
is tagging objects based on image recognition.
This is really going to help, especially when you see,
like the new advancements in the Photos app itself,
where you can find written and printed text and do machine
learning on how to find objects there.
Even though the 2017 iPad Pro will get iPadOS 15,
some features are exclusive to newer iPads.
Now, looking here, we have a 603 score on the
Machine Learning index, and here we have 2695.
It's night and day.
So here we see image classification.
We have 767 in terms of the score.
85.4 images per second (IPS)
Where this is getting a total of 5962, and there are
638 images per second (IPS)
So it's actually going to be like a six or seven times
increase in that type of machine learning.
If you need to run some machine learning on your iPad, this is
where the new 2021 iPad Pro would have a significant
advantage in comparison to the 2017.
Now for the next set of tests, we're going to open
up Geekbench.
We'll run this from a performance perspective and see
how each of these devices performs using Geekbench 5 and
in the newest configuration.
So let's go and open up geekbench five.
Here that is.
And we're looking here at the basic stats.
It says it's twenty-seventeen iPad Pro.
It has a two-point three- four gigahertz, A10X Fusion,
which is the processor that came out with this.
And there are three-point nine one gigs of RAM.
In comparison, there is almost four times as much RAM in the
2021 iPad Pro.
It's quite laughable.
And at three point one nine arm processor.
Click on CPU.
Click on Run Benchmark.
Now even though both these tests were started at roughly
the same time, I think maybe about a second apart.
We look here on the 2021 iPad Pro; it is ripping
through those tests, I'd say, at a much quicker pace here.
We're looking at about sixty-five percent done.
Here on the twenty seventeen iPad Pro.,
we're about fifty percent done.
The test just finished up, and here we can see a
really big difference.
We have a single-core performance on the 2021 iPad
Pro of 1717 compared to 846 on the twenty seventeen ten-point
five-inch (10.5") iPad Pro.
If we look at that in the multicore score, there is about
a three times difference.
Actually, three and a half times the difference between
the multicore score of 7324 on the 2021 iPad Pro with sixteen
gigs of RAM with 2304 on this multicore score on the
2017 iPad Pro.
Now, I don't believe that the RAM is really playing that big
deal with how fast these performance metrics will be.
That's not the case because it's not
necessarily RAM intensive.
If we run other types of benchmarks, runs compute
score right here.
We'll see what happens when the next set of tests.
Now, I want to note that the 2021 iPad Pro is running iPadOS
15 beta one,
And this is running iPadOS 14.6.
I do plan on upgrading this device to iPadOS 15.
Let me know if you're interested in that down in
the comments below.
I can let you know how it's running.
Things that I know in terms of features are available.
I would say that there should not be a tremendous amount of
difference in how the iPad Pros are handling those tasks based
on the software version.
Again, this is not a comparison of this software relative
to other iPads.
It's a comparison of the iPad Pro 2017 versus the 2021
iPad Pro version.
So we are complete.
2017 again here on my left, 2021 on my right.
We have a compute score of 7033 on the 2017 iPad Pro, and on
the 2021 iPad Pro, we have a 20003 compute score.
So it's literally almost three times the difference in
terms of that.
The next test we're going to run will be the performance
test of WiFI on each of these devices.
Now, the 2017 iPad Pro supports 802.11 A,B,G,N,
as well AC.
Now here on the 2021 iPad Pro.
It's all those same bands in addition to Wi-Fi 802.11 AX
which is Wi-Fi 6.
Now, what I want to go and do is I want to run the
test individually, not concurrently, just to see
if there's any type of draw from having too many devices on
the network at that point.
So here 2017 iPad Pro that we have here on my left,
We're looking at roughly 380 megabits per second downlink.
392 Mbps, to be exact.
On the uplink, we are looking at 350-360..
We'll see that once it completes.
366.
Now, let's run that same test here on the 2021 iPad Pro.
Again, I'm running these tests individually,
not concurrently, just in case there's any type of limitation
from a bandwidth perspective,
that's quite ridiculous.
600, 589 megabits down and 419 up.
That is pretty significant.
If you are using an application, some type of
service that is very keen on any type of latency, any type
of bandwidth constraints, you want to make sure that
you're going to go with a device that can give you the
most amount of bandwidth, the most amount of throughput,
and that's going to be in the scenario,
the 2021 iPad Pro.
But you also have to remember that you need to have a
wireless network configured to support those speeds.
I have a brand new Eero Pro network here at my house,
so that's why I'm able to reproduce this.
Without that, I'd be limited to the type of throughput I would
experience on either of these devices.
So keep that in mind.
It's not really just upgrading one device.
You will need to upgrade your Wi-Fi network and make sure
that your Internet provider can also support that
type of bandwidth.
The one thing I can note here:
when I downloaded the Speedtest app, it recognizes
that this is a ten-point five-inch (10.5") iPad Pro.
The speed test app does not recognize this as a
2021 iPad Pro.
So there might be a little bit of optimization that still
needs to be done.
But I would say that it's probably negligible because it
doesn't recognize those device types.
It should not matter that much.
Next, we do some benchmarking using a 3D mark wildlife app.
This is an app that was replicating the performance of
a device in terms of GPU.
Here, there are several different tests that
you can perform.
I'm going to do the first test, which is
the wildlife extreme.
I'm going to run it in the standard mode,
not the unlimited mode.
And we are going to go ahead and push start.
This will help anyone playing any advanced games and running
apps that should be very heavy GPU performance.
Now we're looking at the performance right here,
which tells you the average frame per second.
How many frames total you have at this moment in time, and how
many seconds are you in.
I think we're not initially concerned about how long it
takes on the device or, you know, took a few seconds
here to go ahead and boot up.
But we could see here look at the frames per second,
eight frames per second, nine frames per second,
The total number of frames and the amount of frames that can
process per second is obviously going to give you a much higher
fidelity on the newer iPads versus this 2017 model.
This test is very much stressing the 2017 model.
So much so, the device can't produce the frames per second
for this game because of the intensity.
It's not as smooth, even though this has a 120-hertz display.
Clearly, the 2017 iPad Pro is not optimized for these
types of results.
Now, looking at these results, the overall score on the 2017
iPad Pro 1,372 compared to the 2021 iPad Pro is 5,029
That's a significant difference if you ask me.
With an average frame per second of 8.2 frames,
where you're getting 30.1 frames per second.
So there's still a two-point drop in terms
of battery performance, and the average frames per second are
somewhere between 5 and 10, and here it is somewhere
between 20 and 31.
Now, what does this really mean?
That means if you're playing high framerate games,
you know, 30 frames per second, 60 frames
per second, or maybe even 120 frames per second
like fortnight is, but you can't play it right now.
You are going to get better performance on the 12.9
2021 iPad Pro, which makes sense.
The brand new tablet games are being optimized for
this tablet.
Now, that's not to say that the game would run poorly on this
2017 iPad Pro.
You would probably just get less performance on that game.
You wouldn't notice this until you actually ran the
side by side.
At the end of the day, we've measured a lot
of things right.
And maybe some of the matter to you, possibly some
of them don't.
Here is how I would pass what we've talked through today.
So, one, if I am doing any type of computing that requires or
that requires machine learning,
you're obviously in a better position if you're using the
2021 iPad Pro versus the 2017 iPad Pr,o hands down.
The second thing is that if you are in a position where you are
playing a lot of games, you have maybe an application
or a suite of applications that might be sensitive to
latency, bandwidth, or any lag,
you're definitely better off with the 2021 iPad Pro,
assuming that you have the wireless network to
support it.
Three.
If you are primarily using the iPad Pro to consume content,
I don't know if I would choose the 2021 twelve-point nine-inch
(12.9") iPad Pro over the 11-inch.
The picture quality looks great on the 2021 iPad,
presuming that you're watching Dolby Vision content.
Now here we're doing a little comparison side by side.
I'm watching "Into the Spiderverse," and the display
is great, but then there's the added size, and that's a
little bit hard to contextualize because it really
depends on who you are and what you do and what you're
carrying with you.
All of those things.
You can see here that there are a few degrees of
more vividness, more brightness,
better contrast on the 2021 12.9" iPad Pro than the
ten-point five-inch (10.5").
But for me, the 12.9" Is the way to go.
Now, is that enough for you to upgrade?
I don't know that you have to let me know down
the comments below.
But otherwise, if you're not consuming double vision content
or you don't want the 12.9" iPad Pro, you're not
really going to notice too 2021
iPad Pro.
I would stick with the ten-point five-inch (10.5")
because unless there's really something that is propelling
you to upgrade.
There are many other things that we didn't talk
about today.
We didn't talk about the front-facing camera.
We didn't talk about the rear-facing camera.
That is much harder to contextualize.
If you guys want to see something on that in terms of
video quality, let me know down the comments below.
But for me, I think the ten-point five-inch (10.5")
iPad Pro is a good device.
It doesn't necessarily hold a lot of weight in terms of use
cases for me personally compared to the 12.9"
2021 iPad Pro.
But I love to hear from you.
I am Mike.
This is Tech 24/7 TV folks.
I will talk to you in the next one.