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

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi everyone Aaron here for Zolo 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 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 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 a 9 and then we have an 8 10 fusion so they're all a little bit 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 Geekbench scores so I have Geekbench 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 bit 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 it's 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 bit 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 bit 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 these 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 gonna 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 we can't really test it between all three of them but we can test scrolling so let's do that with 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 bit 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 bit 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 it 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 really good 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 timehi everyone Aaron here for Zolo 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 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 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 a 9 and then we have an 8 10 fusion so they're all a little bit 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 Geekbench scores so I have Geekbench 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 bit 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 it's 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 bit 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 bit 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 these 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 gonna 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 we can't really test it between all three of them but we can test scrolling so let's do that with 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 bit 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 bit 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 it 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 really good 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\n"