Chris here with a video that a lot of people actually did want to see so the Xiaomi pad
5 global version versus the top-spec Chinese import model here that I got I bought this one
this has of course 5g support and it's called the pad 5 pro 5g is it more than just a faster chipset
and 2 gigabytes more ram well as you see in this comparison it offers quite a lot more than you
would think the pad 5 pro version but is it the one you should go for so our screens on these
models are exactly the same it's an 11 inch IPS fully laminated and the resolution is 2560 by 1600
both of them the wrong performance ui is really exactly the same i can't tell too much of a
difference although we do have a course snapdragon 870 on the pro models versus the 860. there is a
difference and i'll get into that with synthetic benchmarks soon so right at the front here is
an 8 megapixel camera on both versions they have the middle frame around the outside and the big
key difference is this right here so the rear camera on the pro 5g model here 50 megapixels
that's not the big difference the big one for me is the focus on this camera so much better than
the global pad 5 version which tends to focus hunt in video this one does not so it is plastic on the
rear this is all exactly the same and the black version here does pick up a lot of fingerprints
compared to the white one so if possible i would get the white version it just looks so much better
and of course the pro model here 5g model has the sim tray there now it just takes a single
nano sim there's a rubber gasket around it for a little bit of dust and splash protection
and you might actually get lucky with this one and be able to pick up 5g in your own country
depending on the frequency band support of your carrier it does not unfortunately have lte band
20 for me which i do need but i might be able to get onto 5g but it has been a little bit
patchy for me pogo port pin connector for that keyboard of course type cover style keyboard
and it just has the single position with this one now i've used it quite a bit now this is
a very nice keyboard and i don't really have any complaints about it at all it works with both pro
and of course non-pro models the tablet simply just slots in like that the back here is magnetic
and that's the fixed angle we then do have with this now there's a big difference in the rom so
on the left here that's the pad five we've got then the pad five pro 5g and we've got a chinese
rom so in english and chinese this has all your android all your european languages on there
with that one or your asian languages it's pretty much covered that what you'd get with android 11.
both run miui 12.5 both android 11 the speed of the roms just general kind of multitasking
until you do really heavy multitasking they both feel exactly the same between these it's just
when i have say for example a game running in the background the pro version with the two gigabytes
more ram and the more powerful process it does then start to feel a little bit faster so rom wise
when you get them you're going to have a little bit of actually quite a lot of chinese bloatware
on the pro version that you need to uninstall and clean up so you do need a bit of time for that
and there's a few bloaty apps on the pad 5 but they've toned down on it it's actually getting
quite a bit better this is one of the big differences between both of these models here
that although on the pad 5 pro here we do have a wide vine level 1 cert with the pro models
and also with the global when you actually end up loading up netflix everything is in
standard definition with the chinese model but the global netflix is full hd at least which is good
and you'll see that right now when i go over to netflix here you can see here standard definition
playback versus full hd hdr 10 support dolby vision support and then the chinese model doesn't
support either of those that's a big difference there and quite a crucial one to a lot of people
that watch netflix amazon prime video on both of these models here runs in standard definition only
internal storage speeds well there is a noticeable difference here we are looking at
gigabytes versus 256 not entirely fair because it increased storage to capacity means it would
actually always be faster normally that is so you can see a huge difference in the random reads and
rights there between the pro model but of course you can get the pad 5 with the 256 gigabytes of
storage both for ufs 3.1 spec so if you did get the 256 gigabyte one expect speeds that would be
similar to this one perhaps actually a little bit lower due to the slightly slower chipset
another huge one is that the pad pro version and the pro 5g have gps okay with the snapdragon 870
but with the 860 we do not get hardware gps support we have the compass they've both got
gyros in them so if you need the gps this is the one to get and it does work really well and two
two scores here so as expected a big difference between the 870 versus the 860. so if you are a
gamer you're going to game a lot there's no point in me showing any games because they do feel
and look a little bit better well overall with the more average better smoother frame rate on
the pad 5 pro and the pad 5 pro 5g you can see the difference here with our geekbench 5 scores
quite a bit in terms of the cpu performance they're pulling ahead
in the 870 with quite a nice lead there and our charge time so clearly a big difference we're
looking at 67 watts charges in 55 minutes versus 22.5 watts the included charger
and that one took 75 minutes note that with these pro models here out of china you do not
get the charger it's not included in the box you have to buy it separately then the battery life
not quite as expected so this one has a smaller capacity battery but it's not by much it's 8
400 milliamp hours versus 8720 milliamp hours really nothing but this one pulled ahead okay
same exact brightness at 200 net same exact looped test doing the same thing and
i managed to get 14 hours 17 minutes versus 12 hours right here and that's at 120 hertz
the odd thing is if you put the pad 5 onto 60 hertz it will then be able to achieve the 14 hours
so it just goes to show you that the snapdragon 870 does seem to be a more efficient chipset
now there is a huge difference when it comes to the wireless speeds wi-fi 6 support on the pad 5
pro and pro 5g versions and then the pad 5 is just wi-fi 5 spec so that's wi-fi ac
versus a x that is why this is able to get gigabit speeds connected up to my router very very good
lower score here away from the router it's got impressive range reception and overall speeds the
pad 5 pro can also pair up and use two networks at once so 2.4 gigahertz and that's wi-fi in and
then wi-fi 6 at the same time to really help improve the performance and remember depending
on your carrying area you see this at the top here we've got mobile data with this but again it's the
chinese bands so if you wanted the fastest wi-fi this one absolutely kills the speeds of the pad 5.
another trick that the pad 5 pro has is this a fingerprint reader look simply place my finger
on the power button and it unlocks and the global pad 5 version does not have this feature
it has face unlocking like this model 2 of course and it works all right but i do
like having that added fingerprint scanner and this is where we're supposed to have
a big difference so with the pad 5 we've got four speakers two at the top two at the bottom and then
with the pad five pro 5g version here we have eight speakers in total so what i'll
do is i'll play the pad five first followed by the pro model see if you can hear a difference
all right i don't think there's that much of a difference to warrant getting one over the
other for the speakers right here but it is an added little perk if you did go for the pro 5g
model to have marginally better bass out of the speakers and mids and then of course pricing a
big difference the global model the pad 5 will be selling for 299 the early bird price and
then it goes up to 349 i think it is for the 128 gigabyte version so with this one we get
256 gigabytes and the price is 450 euros upwards for this spec here okay which is the pro 5g model
so we do have with the global model all of your android languages this chinese rom only has of
course english and chinese the big one for me and a lot of people is netflix support is on
the global model full hd support dolby vision hdr that's what we get with this one
standard definition only no dolby vision no hdr with the chinese rom version here well the chinese
import model so that's a big shame and both of them amazon prime video in standard definition
until they white list these devices and add them as supported tablets which i hope will happen
later on in the year so the pad 5 pro gets a lot of extra things it's more than just the chipset so
yes we get the faster chipset 2 gigabytes more ram double the storage you can also get 256 with this
one gps support fingerprint reader eight speakers 50 megapixel camera with better auto focus
so that's quite a bit and then of course the obvious 5g support but do check with your carrier
if the chinese bands some of them will be supported here in europe will actually work out
fine for you so there we go a lot of differences there now if you're interested in either of these
models there are links down in the description of this video thank you so much for watching
do check out my full review of the pad 5 and the pad 5 pro which can be found in my channel