Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “2020 Apple iPad Air vs iPad Pro – Full Comparison”.
What’S up folks how’s it going, this watch hope you guys are all doing well, and this is the fourth generation 2020 version of the ipad air looks awesome very similar to the ipad pro. It has that same kind of square design, language, thin, overall, bezels and no home button. Now the key issue that we’re going to cover in this article is: how does the air compare against the ipad pro? Is it better? Is it worse, what are the key advantages and disadvantages that both devices present we’re also going to be talking about the 8th generation 10.2 inch version of the ipad that got launched pretty much at the same time as the new gen air? So that way, you have a good all-encompassing viewpoint of the entire ipad lineup for 2020.. Now before we get into the nitty-gritty, it takes a lot of resources to make content like this possible. So we definitely have to thank pdf element by wondershare for sponsoring this content.
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Wi-Fi is about 458 grams and 478 grams on the probe respectively. Now the difference between the pro and the air at the front are pretty much negligible. You have a very similar screen, configuration 10.9 inches versus 11 inches on the pro it’s really not until you flip the devices around and at the back you notice the camera difference. We actually have the same exact 12 megapixels standard wide camera. They both can shoot. 4K resolution at 60 frames per second, but on the pro we have the addition of the ultra wide 10 megapixel camera, as well as the 3d lidar scanner, which is not available on the air.
Now the standard 10.2 inch ipad is also limited when it comes to camera configuration on the rear. We have an 8 megapixel stills capability, which is quite an old camera, as well as limited to only 1080p at 30 frames per second for video recording beyond that. In some of the front-facing cameras, both the air and the pro are pretty much identical in terms of configuration 7 megapixel stills with 1080p videos at 60 frames per second and on the standard ipad, 8th, gen we’re looking at a potato camera pretty much a 1.2 megapixel Stills and 720p resolution at 30 frames per second now.
Another huge benefit of the air is the fact that it’s fully compatible with the ipad pro accessory lineup, including the smart keyboard, with the track pad, as well as the second generation magnetically latching apple pencil and with the keyboard attachment itself. I think the ipad air can pretty much replace 99 of the laptops out there, including ones that apple make like the macbook air. I move forward.
Let’S talk about the displays on all three devices. Now all of them actually have a retina display with a similar ppi count of 264., so the pixel density and overall sharpness across all three ipads is very very similar. But there is a difference in terms of the actual display quality itself. The pro and air are using what they call a liquid retina display it’s a laminated display panel, which is mounted closer to the glass.
So you do feel that the colors are a little bit more saturated pop out a little bit more. It feels a little bit brighter, although in terms of actual maximum brightness both of the air and the standard ipad are rated at 500. Nits versus the pro is rated at 600 nits and certainly the most important difference on the pros that we have 120 hertz refresh rate on the display versus 60 hertz on the other two, and that makes a huge difference when you’re actually using the thing on a Day-To-Day basis, just navigating through the apps and interface, you can tell how fluid and dynamic the motion is compared to the 60 hertz display found on the air and on the standard ipad. Beyond that, let’s talk about the system in package configuration we have internally on all three ipads now on the pro we have the fastest silicon that apple makes for uh their ios products, which is the apple a12 zed bionic, eight core cpu, with eight core graphics, the Air is using the same sip found on the iphone 12s, which is the a14 six core cpu with four core gpu, and the standard ipad is using the previous generation a12 bionic, which also has a six core cpu and a four core gpu.
But the core frequencies are slower than the new generation cpu, as well as the level of transistors on the a14 are quite astonishing: 11.8 billion versus 6.9 billion on the a12. Furthermore, in terms of storage and memory configuration, obviously the pro will have the greatest variety you can get up to one terabyte of a long-term storage as well, six gigabytes of ram and on the air we’re looking at up to 256 gigabytes of long-term storage with four Gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes, with three gigabytes of ram on the standard ipad now in terms of the actual performance on all three devices, let’s take a look at our geekbench benchmark results. Taking a look at the single core benchmark, you can see that funny enough. The pro and the standard ipad are pretty much the same at around 1100 points, but when we get into the multi-core performance, the pro is coming out on top of 4 700 points versus 4200 points on the air and the standard ipad got 2100 points.
So we can certainly see in terms of the multi-core performance the pro is coming out on top now, if we factor in gpu cpu performance, everything like that and 2-2 is a great demonstrator of what all three of these ipads are really capable of, and we get Around 750 000 points on the pro versus 640 000 points on the air and the standard ipad got around 400 000 points on antutu now recently, 3dmark released a new benchmarking platform for the ipad, with their wildlife unlimited graphic test, and this is something that renders out In quad hd resolution 2560 by 1440., we’re gon na see which ipad renders out at the highest average fps, and that is no surprise with the ipad pro. Thanks to the eight core graphics inside, we get an average rate of 80 fps. The air resulted in an average frame rate of 54 frames per second and 38 frames per second was the rate of the standard ipad with the a12 bionic.
Now, on top of that, i also want to do a more real world evaluation of the performance differences between the ipads. So we’re going to do a little render output test, specifically with a 4k movie project on imovie, with a decent amount of edit transitions, color effects, as well as some sound added to it. Now the total length of the imovie project is around two minutes and it only took about one minute, eight seconds to fully export out in 4k on the ipad pro versus one minute 19 seconds on the air and one minute 46 seconds on the standard ipad. So you can see that we have a logical progression in terms of the pro being slightly faster than the air and the air and the pro being a decent amount faster than the standard ipad. That’S generally, the consensus that i find when using all three of these devices based on my experience, the ipad air and pro are very similar in terms of performance and they both outperform the standard generation ipad by a significant margin based on my user experience.
But the difference between the pro and the air are negligible and when you are using them, you’re gon na never really notice the difference between the two. It’S really the cameras and the refresh rate. That really sells me on the pro now last. Let’S talk about the battery parameters on all three devices in terms of capacity itself, the air and the pro are very similar, basically 28 watt hour battery on both of them and funny enough. The standard ipad has actually a slightly larger battery at 32 watt hours. Now we do always like to do a video playback test to just get a baseline feel of what the battery performance is going to be like and it’ll give you kind of a more realistic interpretation of what it might be like if you’re going to go on A long journey in airplane mode and just watch a whole bunch of movies that you’ve downloaded through netflix or whatever, like that on your ipad and in terms of the runtime itself, based on those parameters, all three devices go over 13 hours of a video playback with A slight discrepancies, basically on at the air we get the slightly longer run time of 13 hours, 40 minutes versus 13 hours, 39 minutes on the standard generation, ipad and 13 hours, 27 minutes on the ipad pro now i have run this video playback test.
A couple of different times with a similar trend generally all three are very, very close to each other and when you are using them on a day-to-day basis, you’re guaranteed at least 10 to 12 hours of even heavy-duty usage. Now, in summary, coming back to the main topic at hand is which ipad is best and which one i would specifically pick. I definitely have to say that, based on the uh feature set and the pricing aspect of things which, by the way for the pro air and standard ipad, is 799, 599 and 329 respectively. I think the ipad air is definitely a no-brainer.
Thanks to the fact that the accessories work you have the same overall display configuration minus the 120 hertz, which is the only real a pro on the pro side. In my opinion, the air has everything going for it. The internal processing is virtually pretty much the same for a 99 of people out there and i think, save yourself.
The 200 get yourself the better accessories and there you go. You have an awesome, laptop replacement and some people could argue that the cameras are not as widely varied, but really the camera that you’re getting is the white camera, which honestly isn’t that important and i could live without the 3d scanner. That’S also built into the pro.
But besides that guys, that is my pick, definitely love to hear what you guys think of the new generation air. I think it’s the best tablet on the market right now and i’d love to hear your thoughts, give us a thumbs up. If you like, this video make sure you have post notifications, turned on and make sure you’ve checked out, pdf element by wondershare thanks to them for sponsoring the video click, the link below for more details, big thanks again for watching and we’ll see you real soon in The next one .